noun (phonetics)
1 a speech sound in which the mouth is open and the tongue is not touching the top of the mouth, the teeth, etc., for example /a:, e, o:/ :
vowel sounds * Each language has a different vowel system.
2 a letter that represents a vowel sound. In English the vowels are a, e, i, o, and u.
compareCONSONANT
seealsoDIPHTHONG
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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 vowel is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does vowel appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — vowel appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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