nnoun.communicationa speech sound made with the vocal tract openSynset:vowel sound
Antonyms:consonant
Derivationally Related Form:vowelizevocalic
Hypernyms:phone sound speech sound
Inherited Hypernyms:vowelphonelanguage unitpartrelationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:ablautdiphthongschwashwastem vowelthematic vowel
Full Hyponyms:ablautdiphthonggrademurmur vowelschwastem vowel
nnoun.communicationa letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowelDerivationally Related Form:vocalic
Hypernyms:alphabetic character letter letter of the alphabet
Inherited Hypernyms:vowellettercharacterwritten symbolsymbolsignalcommunicationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:vowel point
Full Hyponyms:vowel point