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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024so•no•rant (sə nôr′ənt, -nōr′-, sō-),USA pronunciation [Phonet.]n. - Phoneticsa voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w).
- Phoneticsa speech sound characterized by relatively free air passage through some channel, as a vowel, semivowel, liquid, or nasal. Cf. obstruent.
adj. - Phoneticsof, pertaining to, or having the properties of a sonorant.
- Latin sonōr- (stem of sonor) sound, noise + -ant; see sonorous
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sonorant /ˈsɒnərənt/ n - one of the frictionless continuants or nasals (l, r, m, n, ŋ ) having consonantal or vocalic functions depending on its situation within the syllable
- either of the two consonants represented in English orthography by w or y and regarded as either consonantal or vocalic articulations of the vowels iː and uː
Etymology: from Latin sonor a noise + -ant |