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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: produced with vibration of the vocal cords; "a frequently voiced opinion"; "voiced consonants such as `b' and `g' and `z'"; [syn: voiced, sonant, soft] [ant: hard, surd, unvoiced, voiceless] n
1: a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords [syn: sonant, voiced sound]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin sonant-, sonans, present participle of sonare to sound — more at sound Date: 1846 1. voiced 2 2. syllabic 1a • sonant noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. Phonet. --adj. (of a sound) voiced and syllabic. --n. a voiced sound, esp. other than a vowel and capable of forming a syllable, e.g. l, m, n, ng, r. Derivatives: sonancy n. Etymology: L sonare sonant- sound

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sonant So"nant, a. [L. sonans, -antis, p. pr. of sonare to sound. See Sound a noise.] 1. Of or pertaining to sound; sounding. 2. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n. A sonant letter.

Moby Thesaurus

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