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voice
English
Alternative forms
- voyce (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Etymology 1
From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin v?cem, accusative form of v?x (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?k?s, root noun from *wek?- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (v?c), Ancient Greek ?? (óps), Persian ????? (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”), from Old English stefn (see steven). Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, epic, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.
Noun
voice (plural voices)
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
- (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.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy
- O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice.
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy
- The faculty or power of utterance
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- 17th century, John Fell, unknown work
- Let us call on God in the voice of his church.
- 17th century, John Fell, unknown work
- An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
- 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid
- Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice / Of holy senates, and elect by voice.
- Like many of the 7 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power in a 2014 coup. "We have had our voice taken away for five years," she says.
- 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid
- (archaic) Command; precept.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.
- A potent voice of Parliament.
- 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
Synonyms
- (sound of human speech): steven, reard
- (opinion): steven, vote, say-so
- (voice of verbs): diathesis, gender (of verbs), grammatical voice, verbal voice
Derived terms
Translations
See voice/translations § Noun.
Etymology 2
From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).
Verb
voice (third-person singular simple present voices, present participle voicing, simple past and past participle voiced)
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- 1893, Annie Wood Besant, An Autobiography
- How often he would voice his love of England, his admiration of her Parliament, his pride in her history.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place
- Rather assume thy right in silence and […] then voice it with claims and challenges.
- 1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII
- It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.
- 1893, Annie Wood Besant, An Autobiography
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, obsolete) To vote; to elect; to appoint
- (intransitive, obsolete) To clamor; to cry out
- (Can we find and add a quotation of South to this entry?)
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
Related terms
Translations
See voice/translations § Verb.
Middle English
Noun
voice
- Alternative form of voys
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narration
English
Etymology
From Middle French narration, from Old French narracion, from Latin narr?ti?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n???e?.??n/, [?n???e?.?n?]
- (US) IPA(key): /?n????e?.??n/, [?n????e?.?n?]
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
narration (countable and uncountable, plural narrations)
- The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
- That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
- (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.
Related terms
- narrate
- narrative
- narrator
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ?????? (nar?shon)
Translations
References
- narration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- atranorin
French
Etymology
Latin narr?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
narration f (plural narrations)
- narration (account; story)
- narration (literary device)
- (rhetoric) narration
Related terms
- narrer
Further reading
- “narration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
Latin narr?ti?.
Noun
narration f (plural narrations)
- narration (account; story)
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