VOICELESS CONSONANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voiceless consonant mean? 

• VOICELESS CONSONANT (noun)
  The noun VOICELESS CONSONANT has 1 sense:

1. a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

  Familiarity information: VOICELESS CONSONANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOICELESS CONSONANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

surd; voiceless consonant

Hypernyms ("voiceless consonant" is a kind of...):

consonant (a speech sound that is not a vowel)