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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.

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"Voice" Quotes from Famous Books

... she groaned in a deep inward voice. Then, with a certain forced haste and in a tone of surprise which to my ear had not quite a natural ring, she called aloud on her who could no longer ...

— The Filigree Ball • Anna Katharine Green

... mean time, from his quiet abode at Mount Vernon, he seemed to hear the patriotic voice of Patrick Henry, which had startled the House of Burgesses, echoing throughout the land, and rousing one legislative body after another to follow the example of that of Virginia. At the instigation of the General ...

— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving

... far-sighted humorist among the audience caught sight of them and, with utter disregard of the dramatic situation and ignoring the consequences of his interference, unloosed his tongue and in a peculiar treble voice ...

— A Pirate of Parts • Richard Neville

... a desire to know what a spirit so seemingly distress, might wish or enjoin a sorrowful son to execute towards his future quiet in the grave? this was the light into which Betterton threw this scene; which he open'd with a pause of mute amazement! then rising slowly, to a solemn, trembling voice, he made the Ghost equally terrible to the spectator, as to himself! and in the descriptive part of the natural emotions which the ghastly vision gave him, the boldness of his expostulation was still governed by decency, manly, but not braving; his voice never rising into that seeming outrage, ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. III • Theophilus Cibber

... and sober. The man who wears a sword walks with a certain swagger. The fakir is everything by turns; he whines, and threatens; he sometimes mumbles his prayers, and sometimes shrieks at the top of his voice. ...

— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty

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