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Voice

noun

1.

The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.

2.

The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract. Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox. "The giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"

3.

A sound suggestive of a vocal utterance. "The incessant voices of the artillery"

4.

Expressing in coherent verbal form. Synonym: articulation. "I gave voice to my feelings"

5.

A means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated. "The Times is not the voice of New York" , "Conservatism has many voices"

6.

Something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression. "The voice of experience" , "He said his voices told him to do it"

7.

(metonymy) a singer.

8.

An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose. Synonyms: interpreter, representative, spokesperson.

9.

The ability to speak.

10.

(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes.

11.

The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music. Synonym: part.

verb

(past & past part. voiced; pres. part. voicing)

1.

Give voice to.

2.

Utter with vibrating vocal chords. Synonyms: sound, vocalise, vocalize. Antonym: devoice.

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"Voice" Quotes from Famous Books

... backs of the horses smoked, and the candles of the lamps were still burning in the broad daylight. Mr. Wogan quickened his pace. He would beg a seat on the box to the next posting stage. Fortune had served him. As he came near he heard from the interior of the inn a woman's voice, not unmusical so much as shrill with impatience, which perpetually ordered and protested. As he came nearer he heard a man's voice obsequiously answering the protests, and as the sound of his footsteps rang in front of the inn both voices immediately stopped. The door was ...

— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason

... she said in a voice breaking with emotion. "You ought not to give way to grief. Your sorrow is a great one, but ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... than foolish to entertain silent suspicions of plagiarism, still more to give them voice, when they are founded on a construction of probabilities which a little more attention to everyday occurrences as a guide in reasoning would show us to be really worthless, considered as proof. The length to which one man's memory ...

— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot

... could either move or speak, Naida swept past him, down the steep bank, and her voice rang out clear, insistent. "Bob Hampton attacked by a mob? Is that true, Phoebe? They are fighting at the Shasta dump, you say? Lieutenant Brant, you must act—you must ...

— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish

... thinking. "Web" evidently set his own interpretation on this silence, for he went on, raising his voice as he ...

— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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