| NOUN | communication | semivowel, glide | a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant |
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| Meaning | A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant. | |
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| Synonym | glide | |
| Narrower | palatal | A semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word 'yeast / yeast') |
| Broader | phone, speech sound, sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
| Spanish | glide, semiconsonante, semivocal | |
| Catalan | glide, semivocal | |
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