1. Adjective
Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
2. Adjective
Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer.
3. Adjective
Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
4. Adjective
Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See Voice, and Vowel, also Guide to Pronunciation, // 199-202.
5. Adjective
Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel.
6. Noun
A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; -- distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal.
7. Noun
A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
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