Usually means: Speech sounds without constriction passage.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word vowel:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. vowel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vowel: Merriam-Webster
  3. vowel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vowel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vowel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vowel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vowel, vowel: Wordnik
  8. vowel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vowel: Wiktionary
  10. vowel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vowel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vowel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vowel: Dictionary.com
  14. vowel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. vowel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Vowel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Vowel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. vowel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. vowel: Rhymezone
  20. vowel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. vowel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. vowel: FreeDictionary.org
  23. vowel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. vowel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. vowel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Vowel: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vowel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vowel: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vowel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
noun:  (orthography) A letter representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y.
verb:  (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).

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