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Sonorant vs Sonorous - What's the difference?

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Sonorous is a related term of sonorant.



As a noun sonorant

is a speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; the generic term of vowel, approximant, nasal consonant, etc.

As an adjective sonorous is

capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.

sonorant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (phonetics) A speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; the generic term of vowel, approximant, nasal consonant, etc.

    • 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