SEMIVOWEL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

Synonyms:

glide; semivowel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("semivowel" is a kind of...):

phone; sound; speech sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semivowel"):

palatal (a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word 'yeast'))

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