Definition of
Voice
- (noun, attribute) the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- (noun, communication) the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations - (noun, event) a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
the incessant voices of the artillery - (noun, communication) expressing in coherent verbal form
I gave voice to my feelings - (noun, act) a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
the Times is not the voice of New York
conservatism has many voices - (noun, communication) something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
the voice of experience
he said his voices told him to do it - (noun, person) (metonymy) a singer
- (noun, person) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (noun, attribute) the ability to speak
- (noun, linkdef) (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- (noun, communication) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- (verb, communication) give voice to
- (verb, communication) utter with vibrating vocal chords
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Synonyms of Voice
articulation, interpreter, part, phonation, representative, sound, spokesperson, vocalisation, vocalise, vocalism, vocalization, vocalize, vox
Antonyms of Voice
Alternate forms of Voice
Hyponyms: accompaniment, active, active voice, ambassador, androglossia, backup, bagman, bass, bass part, chirk, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, flack, flack catcher, flak, flak catcher, lung-power, mouth, mouthpiece, musical accompaniment, passive, passive voice, primo, quaver, roadman, secondo, singing voice, spokesman, spokeswoman, sprechgesang, sprechstimme, support, traveling salesman, travelling salesman, voice over, voice part, waver
Hypernyms: advocate, advocator, agency, air, articulate, communication, enounce, enunciate, exponent, express, expression, give tongue to, grammatical relation, line, means, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, physical ability, pronounce, proponent, say, singer, sound, sound out, strain, tune, utter, verbal expression, verbalise, verbalism, verbalize, vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer, way
Origin of the word Voice
- late 13c., "sound made by the human mouth," from O.Fr. voiz, from L. vocem (nom. vox) "voice, sound, utterance, cry, call, speech, sentence, language, word," related to vocare "to call," from PIE base *wek- "give vocal utterance, speak" (cf. Skt. vakti "speaks, says," vacas- "word;" Avestan vac- "speak, say;" Gk. aor. e… more
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Words that sound like Voice
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