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May 27, 2012
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so•nant



Pronunciation: (sō'nunt), [key]
—adj.
1. sounding; having sound.
2. Phonet.voiced (opposed to surd).

—n. Phonet.
1. a speech sound that by itself makes a syllable or subordinates to itself the other sounds in the syllable; a syllabic sound (opposed to consonant).
2. a voiced sound (opposed to surd).
3. (in Indo-European) a sonorant.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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