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Voice

noun

1.

The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.

2.

The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract. Synonyms: phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, vox. "The giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"

3.

A sound suggestive of a vocal utterance. "The incessant voices of the artillery"

4.

Expressing in coherent verbal form. Synonym: articulation. "I gave voice to my feelings"

5.

A means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated. "The Times is not the voice of New York" , "Conservatism has many voices"

6.

Something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression. "The voice of experience" , "He said his voices told him to do it"

7.

(metonymy) a singer.

8.

An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose. Synonyms: interpreter, representative, spokesperson.

9.

The ability to speak.

10.

(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes.

11.

The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music. Synonym: part.

verb

(past & past part. voiced; pres. part. voicing)

1.

Give voice to.

2.

Utter with vibrating vocal chords. Synonyms: sound, vocalise, vocalize.

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"Voice" Quotes from Famous Books

... yet, pale and lovely, looking like a spirit, far across the rich colours of the room, her long hair loose about her. I should gather her to my heart before she saw me; my arms and lips should speak before my breaking voice. I should kiss my soul out on her lifted face. I should love her so, she should forgive me before I could so much as say, Forgive! And when I had her—to myself again—when these arms were sure of their own, and these lips of hers, when her precious ...

— The Gates Between • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... the design of exacting a reply, of which no notice was taken; till at length, having fastened all her sails, and swung her broadside towards us, we could distinctly hear some one cry out in a commanding voice, "Give them this for the honour of America." The words were instantly followed by the flashes of her guns, and a deadly shower of grape swept ...

— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig

... Caracalla and by Alexander; for he possessed the uncommon talent of acquiring the esteem of virtuous princes, without alarming the jealousy of tyrants. His long life was innocently spent in the study of letters and the peaceful honors of Rome; and, till he was named proconsul of Africa by the voice of the senate and the approbation of Alexander, [18] he appears prudently to have declined the command of armies and the government of provinces. [181] As long as that emperor lived, Africa was happy under the administration of his worthy representative: ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

... with this tremendous equipment can hardly help being something too much for the generation in which he is born. Consequently, the Typical Poet is misunderstood by his contemporaries, and probably persecuted. In his own age his is a voice crying in the wilderness; in the wilderness he speeds the "viewless arrows of his thought"; which fly far, and take root as they strike earth, and blossom; and so Truth multiplies, and in the end (most likely after his death) ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... opened public debate on the island's national identity; a broad popular consensus has developed that Taiwan currently enjoys de facto independence and - whatever the ultimate outcome regarding reunification or independence - that Taiwan's people must have the deciding voice; advocates of Taiwan independence oppose the stand that the island will eventually unify with mainland China; goals of the Taiwan independence movement include establishing a sovereign nation on Taiwan and entering ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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