Definitions for vocal

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vocal vo·cal

Spelling: [voh-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈvoʊ kəl/

Vocal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in vocal (aclov).

Definitions for vocal

noun

1. a vocal sound.
2. a musical piece for a singer, usually with instrumental accompaniment. Compare instrumental (def 6).

adjective

1. of, relating to, or uttered with the voice:
2. rendered by or intended for singing:
3. having a voice:
4. giving forth sound with or as with a voice.
5. inclined to express oneself in words, especially copiously or insistently:
6. Phonetics. vocalic (def 1). voiced.

Origin of vocal

1350-1400; Middle English Latin vōcālis, equivalent to vōc- (stem of vōx) voice + -ālis -al¹

Examples for vocal

Cooke describes Joplin as being “always on the prowl and vocal about it.”

Toward evening there was vocal music, and the men sang in chorus.

One, from a short preview of her rehearsal performance, is that Williams certainly boasts the vocal chops to do the part justice.

He wriggled and fought, but he was pinned and helpless, hands, feet and vocal organs.

He produced the lop-sided appearance of his laugh, but without making it vocal.

Still the barytone, who was almost as fond of conversation as of what he termed "vocal."

Jessen was named a Mormon bishop, but the appointment was met with vocal protests.

Entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa is a vocal proponent of gender diversity.

I ended up developing a blister on one of my vocal cords, so that kinda sucked.

I believe I have a demon that inhabits my vocal cords upon occasion.