voice
voice Lexical Profile
voice Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The sound produced in a person's larynx and uttered through the mouth, as speech or song.
"She lowered her voice to a whisper so she would not wake the sleeping child."
An expressed opinion or attitude, or the right and ability to express it and influence decisions.
"The committee ensured that local residents had a strong voice in the urban planning process."
The distinctive tone, style, or point of view of an author, narrator, or literary work.
"It took several years for the young novelist to develop her own authentic literary voice."
A grammatical category of verbs that indicates the relation between the participants in an event and the event itself, such as active or passive.
"Scientific papers often use the passive voice to emphasize objective experimental results over the researchers."
• verb
To express something in words, especially an opinion, concern, or emotion.
"Several board members voiced their concerns regarding the proposed budget cuts."
To provide the spoken dialogue for an animated character or off-screen narrator in a film, television show, or video game.
"The veteran actor was hired to voice the wise mentor in the new animated feature."
To utter a speech sound with vibration of the vocal cords (in phonetics).
"Speakers of English naturally voice the consonant sound at the beginning of the word 'zoo'."
• Rhymes for voice
Word Origin & Etymology
Entered Middle English via Old French 'voiz', from Latin 'vox' (stem 'voc-'), meaning 'voice, sound, or utterance', ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *wekʷ- ('to speak').