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A word that is spoken aloud
Answer for the clue "A word that is spoken aloud ", 7 letters:
vocable
Word definitions for vocable in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a word that is spoken aloud [syn: spoken word ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context linguistics English) able to be uttered. n. 1 (context linguistics English) A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning. 2 (context music English) A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the broadest sense of the word, a vocable is any meaningful sound uttered by people, such as a word or term, that is fixed by their language and culture. However, use in the broad sense is archaic. The term is currently used for utterances which are ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vocable \Vo"ca*ble\, n. [L. vocabulum an appellation, designation, name, fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, a voice, a word: cf. F. vocable. See Voice .] A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, ...
Usage examples of vocable.
As usual, two or three loafers were hanging about here, exchanging blasphemies and filthy vocables, but, even if they recognised him, there was not much fear of their giving assistance to the police.
I endow you with this instrument which relates all possible vocables to every conceivable system of meaning.
The boy showed some recollection of the lectures of his queen, but he had not the vocables for resistance to an imperative senior at work upon sneaking inclinations.
Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.
German lady kept smiling across the table, and trying detached vocables of their respective tongues upon each other.
As usual, two or three loafers were hanging about here, exchanging blasphemies and filthy vocables, but, even if they recognised him, there was not much fear of their giving assistance to the police.
But some of the vocables teased me with a vague sense of familiarity, though I could not define or aline this familiarity at the moment.