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postvocalic

UK/ˌpəʊstvəʊˈkælɪk/

postvocalic adjective: (Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel.

Adjective

postvocalic (not comparable)

  1. (Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel.
    • Final post-vocalic /r/ in farmer in English rural dialects of the 1950s (captioning a linguistic map).

postvocalic meaning in Bengali

postvocalic in Bengali

একটি স্বরবর্ণের পরে ঘটা

Origin of postvocalic

From post- + vocalic.

Words formed from postvocalic

Questions about postvocalic

What does postvocalic mean?
Postvocalic means (Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel.
What is postvocalic in Bengali?
Postvocalic in Bengali is একটি স্বরবর্ণের পরে ঘটা. See Postvocalic meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is postvocalic?
Postvocalic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce postvocalic?
Postvocalic is pronounced /ˌpəʊstvəʊˈkælɪk/ (UK).

Words near postvocalic in the dictionary

  1. postvis
  2. postvisualization
  3. postvitellogenic
  4. postvitrification
  5. postviz
  6. postvocalic
  7. postvocalically
  8. postvoid
  9. postvoiding
  10. postvolcanic
  11. postvolitional

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postvocalic (page history and authors); postvocalic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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