cardinal vowelnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌkɑː.dɪ.nəl ˈvaʊəl/us/ˌkɑːr.dɪ.nəl ˈvaʊəl/specializedone of the vowels in the system for describing vowels to which other vowels can be compared and referred
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- anaphor
- anaphora
- anaphoric
- double entendre
- ellipsis
- idiomatic
- irregular
- linguistic
- litotes
- neurolinguistics
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philology
- portmanteau word
- prosody
- semiotics
- tone language
- tongue
See more results »