voice
English
/vɔɪs/
noun
Definitions
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object
- The faculty or power of utterance
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered
- (archaic) Command; precept.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- (Internet) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English voice derived from voiz, voys, voice derived from Old French voiz, vois derived from Latin vōcem derived from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (voice, speech).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wṓkʷs
Gloss
voice, speech
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
声
Emoji
☎️ 📞 📱 📲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *voicen English
- avaz English
- band English
- bank English
- bevoice English
- box English
- devoice English
- eigenvoice English
- mail English
- nonvoice English
- outvoice English
- over English
- overvoice English
- photovoice English
- pipe English
- print English
- revoice English
- steven English
- track English
- undervoice English
- unvoice English
- vociferous English
- vociferously English
- vociferousness English
- voice mail English
- voice-over English
- voiceable English
- voiceband English
- voicebank English
- voicebox English
- voiceful English
- voicefulness English
- voicegram English
- voiceless English
- voicelessly English
- voicelessness English
- voicelike English
- voicening English
- voicepipe English
- voiceprint English
- voicer English
- voicescape English
- voicest English
- voiceth English
- voicetrack English
- voicewise English
- voicework English
- voicey English
- voicing English
- voicism English
- voicist English
- voicy English
- work English
- cōturnīx Latin
- vociferari Latin
- vox Latin
- vox, vocis Latin
- vōcem Latin
- vōx Latin
- voce Italian
- voix French
- à mi-voix French
- терменвокс Russian
- Καλλιόπη Ancient Greek
- αἶθοψ Ancient Greek
- ὀπτικός Ancient Greek
- ὄψ Ancient Greek
- ὄψις Ancient Greek
- *wekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wōkʷs Proto-Indo-European
- *wṓkʷs Proto-Indo-European
- *stebnō Proto-Germanic
- イケメンボイス Japanese
- ボイス Japanese
- leodstefn Old English
- stefn Old English
- वाच् Sanskrit
- steven Middle English
- stewin Middle English
- voice Middle English
- vokál Czech
- voiz Old French
- voiz, vois Old French
- आवाज़ Hindi
- voceiro Galician
- boace Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- آواز Persian
- voco Ido
- avaz Turkish
- әуез Kazakh
- vohë Albanian
- voix Middle French
- avaz Azerbaijani
- آواز Ottoman Turkish
- voz Old Portuguese
- আৱাজ Assamese
- અવાજ Gujarati
- *wā́kš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- boatsi Aromanian
- *wōks Proto-Italic
- vousch Romansh
- vusch Romansh
- voz Asturian
- आवाज Marathi
- vôs Friulian
- *wā́kṣ Proto-Indo-Aryan
- আওয়াজ Bengali
- votz Old Occitan
- آواز Urdu
- voz Old Spanish
- buci Sicilian
- ئاۋاز Uighur, Uyghur
- ʾwʾz Middle Persian
- vóse Venetian
- vóxe Venetian
- vois Tok Pisin
- voiz, voys, voice xno
- *vaxša- Proto-Iranian
- *wahā-čā̆rana- Proto-Iranian
- vwa Haitian, Haitian Creole
- boûz Istriot
- *wókʷs Proto-Hellenic
- vwa Antillean Creole
- *wek Proto-Tocharian
- аваз Tatar
- آواز Sindhi
- واجار Mazanderani
- बाच Garhwali
- آواز Kalami
- box
- band
- work
- pipe
- over
- avaz
- bank
- track
- voicy
- voicer
- steven
- voicey
- voiceth
- voicing
- bevoice
- voicist
- *voicen
- unvoice
- revoice
- voicest
- devoice
- voicism
- nonvoice
- voicebox
- outvoice
- voiceful
- voicepipe
- voiceband
- voicewise
- voicegram
- voiceless
- voicelike
- voiceable
- voicework
- overvoice
- voicebank
- voicening
- photovoice
- voice-over
- eigenvoice
- voiceprint
- vociferous
- undervoice
- voicescape
- voice mail
- voicetrack
- voicelessly
- voicefulness
- vociferously
- voicelessness
- vociferousness