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Definition of Sibilance
1. n. The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
Definition of Sibilance
1. Noun. A sibilant sound. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being sibilant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sibilance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sibilance
Literary usage of Sibilance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northern English: Phonetics, Grammar, Texts by Richard John Lloyd (1899)
"For although, in a gliding phone, there cannot be the adjusted duplicate sibilance
of continuant J (50), there is in J a fugitive sibilance of the same ..."
2. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"... as the changing of the radical sounds ' of the consonants from being stops of
the breath to a ' sibilance, or from a stronger to a weaker sibilance. ..."
3. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"... defined as the changing of the radical sounds of the consonants from being
stops of the breath to a sibilance, or from a stronger to a weaker sibilance. ..."
4. The origin and history of Irish names of places by Patrick Weston Joyce (1875)
"O'Donovan defines aspiration—" The changing of the radical sounds of the consonants,
from being stops of the breath to a sibilance, or from a stronger to a ..."
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