voice

Roget category 580

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#580. Voice

noun

voice — vocality^† — organ, lungs, bellows — good voice, fine voice, powerful voice etc. (loud) 404 — musical voice etc. 413 — intonation — tone of voice etc. (sound) 402.
vocalization — cry etc. 411 — strain, utterance, prolation^† — exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis^† — enunciation, articulation — articulate sound, distinctness — clearness, of articulation — stage whisper — delivery.
accent, accentuation — emphasis, stress — broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent — pronunciation.
[Word similarly pronounced] homonym.
orthoepy^† — cacoepy^† — euphony etc. (melody) 413.
gastriloquism^†, ventriloquism — ventriloquist — polyphonism^†, polyphonist^†.
[Science of voice] phonology etc. (sound) 402.

verb

utter, breathe — give utterance, give tongue — cry etc. (shout) 411 — ejaculate, rap out — vocalize, prolate^†, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth — whisper in the ear.

adjective

vocal, phonetic, oral — ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous — euphonious etc. (melodious) 413.

phrase

how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman" [Massinger]; the organ of the soul" [Longfellow]; thy voice is a celestial melody" [Longfellow].

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Bold numbers signify related Roget categories. A dagger symbol (†) indicates archaic words and expressions no longer in common use.

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