Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.
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Vocable
//ˈvəʊkəbl̩//
Synonyms for "vocable" (104 found)
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Closest matches (21)
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Related words (52)
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10 entriesTranslations
11 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- произносим adj (able to be uttered)
- дума noun (linguistics: word or utterance)
Finnish
4 entries- lallatus noun (music: syllable or sound without specific meaning)
- sane noun (linguistics: word or utterance)
- vokaabeli noun (linguistics: word or utterance)
- vokaabeli noun (music: syllable or sound without specific meaning)
Georgian
1 entries- სიტყვა noun (linguistics: word or utterance)
German
1 entries- Vokabel noun (linguistics: word or utterance)
Portuguese
1 entries- vocábulo noun (linguistics: word or utterance)
Spanish
1 entries- vocablo noun (linguistics: word or utterance)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
At first the man puzzled; then he smiled. He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.
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Many Native American songs employ vocables, syllables that do not have referential meaning. These may be used to frame words or may be inserted among them; in some cases, they constitute the entire song text.
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a vocable marker
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