voice

Meanings

• the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
  • "A shrill voice sounded behind us"
• the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
  • "a singer takes good care of his voice"
• a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
  • "the noisy voice of the waterfall"
  • "the incessant voices of the artillery"
• expressing in coherent verbal form
  • "I gave voice to my feelings"
• a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
  • "the voice of the law"
  • "the Times is not the voice of New York"
  • "conservatism has many voices"
• something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
  • "the wee small voice of conscience"
  • "the voice of experience"
  • "he said his voices told him to do it"
• (metonymy) a singer
  • "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
• the ability to speak
  • "he lost his voice"
• (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
• the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
• give voice to
  • "He voiced his concern"
• utter with vibrating vocal chords

Synonyms

articulation, interpreter, part, phonation, representative, sound, spokesperson, vocalisation, vocalise, vocalism, vocalization, vocalize, vox