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fricatives

fricatives is the plural of fricative.

Meaning of fricative

Noun

fricative (plural fricatives)

  1. Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
    • Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious. The fricatives in particular were pleasing.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    spirant

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Phrases with fricatives

Questions about fricatives

What is fricatives the plural of?
Fricatives is the plural of fricative.

Words near fricatives in the dictionary

  1. fricatise
  2. fricatised
  3. fricative
  4. fricatively
  5. fricativeness
  6. fricatives
  7. fricativisation
  8. fricativise
  9. fricativised
  10. fricativises
  11. fricativising

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