Voice

More definitions of "voice":

• (verb): Utter with vibrating vocal chords.
  Synonyms: sound, vocalize, vocalise

• (noun): The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.
  Example: "A shrill voice sounded behind us"

• (verb): Give voice to.
  Example: "He voiced his concern"

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

• (noun): The ability to speak.
  Example: "He lost his voice"

• (noun): The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract.
  Example: "A singer takes good care of his voice"
  Synonyms: vocalization, vocalisation, phonation, vox

• (noun): Expressing in coherent verbal form.
  Example: "I gave voice to my feelings"
  Synonyms: articulation

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

• (noun): A means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated.
  Example: "The voice of the law"; "the Times is not the voice of New York"; "conservatism has many voices"

• (noun): The melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music.
  Synonyms: part

• (noun): (metonymy) a singer.
  Example: "He wanted to hear trained voices sing it"

• (noun): A sound suggestive of a vocal utterance.
  Example: "The noisy voice of the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery"

Famous quotes containing the word voice:

“For, surely, surely, where
Your voice and graces are,
Nothing of death can any feel or know.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.”
—Alla Nazimova (1879–1945)

“O make harmonious mix of voice and string
To him by whom the skies with clouds are lin’d;
By whom the rain, from clouds to drop assign’d,
Supples the clods of summer-scorched fields,”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXLVII (Paraphrased by The Countess of Pembroke)