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so·no·rant    Audio Help   [suh-nawr-uhnt, -nohr-, soh-] Pronunciation Key Phonetics
–noun
1.a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
2.a speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal. Compare obstruent.
–adjective
3.of, pertaining to, or having the properties of a sonorant.
[Origin: < L sonōr- (s. of sonor) sound, noise + -ant; see sonorous]
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