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S vs Sonorous - What's the difference?

s | sonorous |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective sonorous is

capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    sonorous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sonourous (rare)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1837 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=DfIsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA162 , original= , chapter= Mercury de Breze , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= , location= New York , editor= , volume= 2 , page= 162 , passage= The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it. }}
  • Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
  • * Addison
    • The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
  • * E. Everett
    • There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
  • Wordy or grandiloquent.

    • Related terms

    * sonorant * sonority * sonorously * sonorousness