(phonetics) A speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; the generic term of vowel, approximant, nasal consonant, etc.

plural of sonorant

Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound. / Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse. / Wordy or grandiloquent.

In a sonorous way.

The property of being sonorous. / (linguistics, phonetics) Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.

plural of sonority

simple past tense and past participle of sonorize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sonorize

present participle of sonorize

(phonetics, of a consonant) increase in sonority; act of sonorizing