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consonants

 
Noun consonant has 2 senses
  1. consonant - a speech sound that is not a vowel
    --1 is a kind of
    phone, speech sound, sound
    Antonyms: vowel, vowel sound
    --1 has particulars:
     alveolar consonant, dental consonant, alveolar; stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive; aspirate; labial consonant, labial; continuant consonant, continuant; sibilant, sibilant consonant; affricate, affricate consonant, affricative; geminate; surd, voiceless consonant; guttural, guttural consonant
  2. consonant - a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant
    --2 is a kind of
    letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
consommateurs consomme consonance consonant consonant rhyme consonant system consonantal consonantal system consonants consonate consonent digraph consonont consoquinces consort consort consortiam consorting

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