intonation
intonation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A thundering; thunder. [Obs.] Bailey.
- 2.(a) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale. (b) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false. (c) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accent
- acoustics
- and
- aspirate
- audibility
- audible
- breathing
- cadence
- diacoustics
- diaphonics
- distinct
- emit
- give
- make
- noise
- out
- phonetic
- phonetics
- phonetism
- phonic
- phonics
- phonocamptic
- phonography
- phonology
- produce
- resonance
- resonant
- resound
- rough
- soniferous
- sonorific
- sonorous
- sound
- sounding
- stertorous
- strain
- thousand
- tone
- twang
- voice
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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