SEMIVOWEL
Dictionary entry overview: What does semivowel mean? • SEMIVOWEL (noun)
The noun SEMIVOWEL has 1 sense:
1. a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
Familiarity information: SEMIVOWEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SEMIVOWEL (noun)
Meaning:
A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
glide; semivowel
Hypernyms ("semivowel" is a kind of...):
phone; sound; speech sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semivowel"):
palatal (a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word 'yeast'))
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