Voice: Definition and part of speech

Voice

  1. n. A particular mode 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.
  2. n. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
  3. n. Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
  4. n. The tone or sound emitted by anything.
  5. n. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.
  6. n. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
  7. n. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
  8. n. Command; precept; — now chiefly used in scriptural language.
  9. n. One who speaks; a speaker.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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