vocal

Speech parts

1. vocal - Noun

2. vocal - Adjective

3. vocal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.

Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.

Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.

Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.

Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.

A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.

A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

outspoken spoken singing oral verbal voiced expressive noisy communicative vociferous clamorous uttered frank protestant public
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Antonyms

instrumental written paper silent modest graphic
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Hypernyms

music opus piece composition musical composition piece of music

Hyponyms

requiem aria serenade lay anthem ballad

Phrases with the word

vocal processes vocal organ vocal sound vocal critic false vocal cords vocal register

Anagrams

clavo

Examples

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a vocal assembly Source: Internet

a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children Source: Internet

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all vocal beings hymned their praise Source: Internet

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Close letter words and terms

vocabulation vocabulist vocabulize vocal advocate vocal apparatus vocal artist