(phonetics) a speech sound made with the tongue touching the part of the mouth behind the upper front teeth, for example /t/ or /d/ ۠
alveolar adjective
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for alveolar is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is alveolar a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, alveolar is tagged as noun.
Does alveolar appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — alveolar appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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