n.
- the sound produced in a person's larynx and uttered through the mouth, as speech or song.
▸the ability to speak or sing.
▸vocal condition for singing or speaking:
the soprano is in good voice.
- an opinion or attitude, or a means or agency by which it is expressed:
a dissenting voice.
- Music the range of pitch or type of tone with which a person sings, such as soprano or tenor.
▸a vocal part in a composition.
▸a constituent part in a fugue.
▸each of the notes or sounds able to be produced simultaneously by a musical instrument, especially an electronic one.
- Phonetics sound uttered with resonance of the vocal cords (used in the pronunciation of vowels and certain consonants).
- Grammar a form or set of forms of a verb showing the relation of the subject to the action:
the passive voice.
v.
- express in words.
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[usu. as adj. voiced]
Phonetics utter (a speech sound) with resonance of the vocal cords.
- Music regulate the tone quality of (organ pipes).
Derivative
- -voiced adj.
- voiceful adj. (literary).
- voicer n.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. vois, from L. vox, voc-.