Voice

More definitions of "voice":

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

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

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

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

• (noun): Something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression.
  Example: "The wee small voice of conscience"; "the voice of experience"; "he said his voices told him to do it"

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word voice:

“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“I
Am found.
O let him
Scald me and drown
Me in his world’s wound.
His lightning answers my
Cry. My voice burns in his hand.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)