voice
voice is a 5-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
- noun. Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
- noun. The tone or sound emitted by anything.
- noun. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.
- noun. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
- noun. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
- noun. Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
- noun. One who speaks; a speaker.
- noun. A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- transitive verb. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
- transitive verb. To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
- transitive verb. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
- transitive verb. To vote; to elect; to appoint.
- intransitive verb. To clamor; to cry out.
- noun. a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
"the voice of the law"
"the Times is not the voice of New York"
- noun. the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
"A shrill voice sounded behind us"
- noun. the ability to speak
"he lost his voice"
- noun. the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
"he tried to sing the tenor part"
- noun. expressing in coherent verbal form
"the articulation of my feelings"
"I gave voice to my feelings"
- noun. the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
"a singer takes good care of his voice"
"the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"
- noun. something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
"the wee small voice of conscience"
"the voice of experience"
- noun. a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
"the noisy voice of the waterfall"
"the incessant voices of the artillery"
- noun. an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
"the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
- noun. (metonymy) a singer
"he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
- noun. (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- verb. give voice to
"He voiced his concern"
- verb. utter with vibrating vocal chords
Synonyms
part, articulation, phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox, interpreter, representative, spokesperson, sound, vocalise, vocalize
Common word forms
voiced, voicer, voices, voicing, voiceful, voiceless
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