VOICE

Definition of VOICE

  1. (noun)the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
  2. (noun)the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
  3. (noun)a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
  4. (noun)expressing in coherent verbal form
  5. (noun)a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
  6. (noun)something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
  7. (noun)(metonymy) a singer
  8. (noun)an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
  9. (noun)the ability to speak
  10. (noun)(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
  11. (noun)the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
  12. (noun)A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
  13. (verb)give voice to
  14. (verb)utter with vibrating vocal chords