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SEMIVOWEL
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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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