Definitions for voice

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voice voice

Spelling: [vois]

IPA: /vɔɪs/

Voice is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in voice (ceiov).

Definitions for voice

noun

1. the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
2. the faculty or power of uttering sounds through the mouth by the controlled expulsion of air; speech:
3. a range of such sounds distinctive to one person, or to a type of person or animal:
4. the condition or effectiveness of the voice for speaking or singing:
5. a sound likened to or resembling vocal utterance:
6. something likened to speech as conveying impressions to the mind:
7. expression in spoken or written words, or by other means:
8. the right to present and receive consideration of one's desires or opinions:
9. an expressed opinion or choice:
10. an expressed will or desire:
11. expressed wish or injunction:
12. the person or other agency through which something is expressed or revealed:
13. a singer:
14. a voice part:
15. Phonetics. the audible result of phonation and resonance.
16. Grammar. a set of categories for which the verb is inflected in some languages, as Latin, and which is typically used to indicate the relation of the verbal action to the subject as performer, undergoer, or beneficiary of its action. a set of syntactic devices in some languages, as English, that is similar to this set in function. any of the categories of these sets:
17. the finer regulation, as of intensity and color, in tuning, especially of a piano or organ.

Idioms

1. the still, small voice, the conscience:
2. with one voice, in accord; unanimously:

adjective

1. Computers. of or relating to the use of human or synthesized speech:
2. Telecommunications. of or relating to the transmission of speech or data over media designed for the transmission of speech:

verb (used with object)

1. to give utterance or expression to; declare; proclaim:
2. Music. to regulate the tone of, as the pipes of an organ. to write the voice parts for (music).
3. to utter with the voice.
4. Phonetics. to pronounce with glottal vibration.
5. to interpret from sign language into spoken language.

Origin of voice

1250-1300; Middle English (noun) Anglo-French voiz, voice (Old French voiz, vois) Latin vōcem, accusative of vōx; akin to vocāre to call, Greek óps voice, épos word (see

Examples for voice

As I approached her apartment, the voice of Alcibiades met my ear.

Persuasive is the voice of Vice, That spreads the insidious snare.

The aged philosopher endeavoured to speak, but his voice was tremulous with emotion.

But we also live with healing, with love, with activism, with a voice.

“[Writing was] the only way I could get people to listen to me without wondering what was wrong with my voice,” he told the Times.

Listen to the voice that tries to win you back to innocence and truth!

"His countenance and his voice troubled me, like the presence of evil," answered Philothea.

The Millennial Action Project (MAP) seeks to engage young people in politics and give them more of a voice in governing.

“He is borrowing my voice to tell you this story,” she told the crowd.

When he does, here is a gentleness in his voice, a reflective and lovely quality that no movie he has been in has ever captured.