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单词 consonant
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consonantnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈkɒn.sə.nənt/us/ˈkɑːn.sə.nənt/

B1 one of the speech sounds or letters of the alphabet that is not a vowel. Consonants are pronounced by stopping the air from flowing easily through the mouth, especially by closing the lips or touching the teeth with the tongue.

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Examples

  • Don't you hate the way she speaks, pronouncing each single consonant so precisely.
  • She's got some unpronounceable name that seems to be all consonants.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

  • alveolar
  • approximant
  • articulatory
  • aspiration
  • assimilation
  • clear l
  • clipped
  • inflection
  • nasalization
  • onomatopoeia
  • palatal
  • palato-alveolar
  • pharyngeal
  • phoneme
  • pronounce
  • silent letter
  • velum
  • voiced
  • vowel
  • weak form

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Examples from literature

  • Double consonants followed by a vowel must be pronounced really double, as in Italian. 
  • Several initial consonants of words and syllables are commonly interchanged, even by the same speaker if he uses a word more than once during a conversation. 
  • The speaker, therefore, will exercise the greatest care in pronouncing consonants distinctly. 
  • Under what condition is a consonant never doubled at the end of a word? 

consonantnoun [ C ]

us/ˈkɑn·sə·nənt/

grammar a speech sound produced by human beings when the breath that flows out through the mouth is blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips

grammar A consonant is also a letter that represents a sound produced in this way:

Except for the vowels in English – a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y – all the letters are consonants.
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