Usually means: Speech sounds produced with obstruction.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. consonant: Merriam-Webster
  2. consonant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. consonant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. consonant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. consonant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Consonant, consonant: Wordnik
  7. consonant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. consonant: Wiktionary
  9. consonant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. consonant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. consonant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. consonant: Dictionary.com
  13. consonant (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. consonant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Consonant (band), Consonant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Consonant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. consonant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. consonant: Rhymezone
  19. Consonant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. consonant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. consonant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. consonant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. consonant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. consonant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. consonant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. consonant: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See consonantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
noun:  A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
adjective:  Consistent, harmonious, compatible, or in agreement.
adjective:  Having the same sound.
adjective:  (music) Harmonizing together; accordant.
adjective:  Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.

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