voice
/vɔɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms voices voicing voiced the Voice voyce
- noun Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character. “The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.”
- noun (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- noun The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- noun The faculty or power of utterance. “to cultivate the voice”
- noun That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- noun (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- noun (archaic) Command; precept.
- noun One who speaks; a speaker.
- verb (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce “He voiced the sentiments of the nation.”
- verb (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- verb (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of “voice the pipes of an organ”
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out
- verb (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- verb (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- proper noun (Australian politics) The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal
Synonyms
steven reard vote say-so diathesis gender grammatical voice verbal voice vocalization vocalisation vocalism phonation vox articulation spokesperson interpreter representative part sound vocalize vocalise
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”).
Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, Old English woþ, and Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.
From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).
Clipping of Voice to Parliament.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
- noun Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; --distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
- verb To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
- verb To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
Etymology [OE. vois, voys, OF. vois, voiz, F. voix, L. vox, vocis, akin to Gr. vac to say, to speak, G. erwähnen to mention. Cf. Advocate, Advowson, Avouch, Convoke, Epic, Vocal, Vouch, Vowel.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “voice”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details