consonant
nounEtymology
From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin cōnsonāns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle sonāns (“sounding”), from sonāre (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek σύμφωνον (súmphōnon).
Definitions
A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity
A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
- “Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?” I asked. “You have used the wrong initial consonant,” he smiled in answer. “Might?” I queried; and he nodded his head.
Consistent, harmonious, compatible, or in agreement.
- Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.
- Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.
- This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.
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Having the same sound.
- 1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae consonant words and syllables
Harmonizing together
Harmonizing together; accordant.
- consonant tones; consonant chords
Of or relating to consonants
Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
- No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
The neighborhood
- antonymdisconsonant
- antonymdissonant
- antonymdiscordant
- neighborconsonance
- neighborconsonantal
- neighborvowel
- neighborsemivowel
Derived
consonantary, consonant cluster, consonant gradation, consonant harmony, consonanthood, consonantic, consonantism, consonantize, consonantless, consonantly, consonantness, consonant rhyme, consonant stem, contoid, inconsonant, linking consonant, nasal consonant, nonconsonant, semiconsonant, unconsonant
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at consonant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at consonant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at consonant
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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