sibilant
English
WOTD – 10 January 2009
Adjective
sibilant (comparative more sibilant, superlative most sibilant)
- Characterized by a hissing sound such as the "s" or "sh" in sash or surge.
- 1960: Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
- She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.
"S-s-s Grace," she said, "it's just like I was telling Brother Hutson the other day. 'S-s-s Brother Hutson,' I said, 'looks like we're fighting a losing battle, a losing battle.' I said."
- She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.
- 1960: Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Derived terms
Translations
characterized by a hissing sound
Noun
sibilant (plural sibilants)
- (phonetics) A consonant having a hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge'.
- Synonym: groove fricative
- Hypernym: fricative
- 1955: H. A. Gleason, An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, page 194, section 14.7
- Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes called sibilants.
Derived terms
Translations
phonetics: a hissing sound
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Related terms
Danish
Declension
Declension of sibilant
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sibilant | sibilanten | sibilanter | sibilanterne |
genitive | sibilants | sibilantens | sibilanters | sibilanternes |
Dutch
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: si‧bi‧lant
Latin
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sibǐlant/
- Hyphenation: si‧bi‧lant
Declension
Synonyms
- (sibilant): pȉskavac
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