Usually means: Pause in airflow, vocal tract closure.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word glottal stop:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. glottal stop: Merriam-Webster
  2. glottal stop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glottal stop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glottal stop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glottal stop: Vocabulary.com
  6. glottal stop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. glottal stop: Wiktionary
  8. glottal stop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. glottal stop: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. glottal stop: Dictionary.com
  11. Glottal Stop, Glottal stop (letter), Glottal stop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. glottal stop: Rhymezone
  13. glottal stop: FreeDictionary.org
  14. glottal stop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. glottal stop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. glottal stop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glottal stop: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glottal stop)

▸ noun:  (phonetics) A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
▸ noun:  The glottal stop symbol, ʔ.

Similar:
glottal catch, glottal plosive, stop, glottalling, glottaling, occlusion, plosive, explosive, suction stop, obstruent, more...

Opposite:
glottal fricative

Adjectives:
consonant, fricative, rhotic, closed, egressive, occlusive, trill, open, tenuis, flapping, obstruent

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Similar:
glottal catch, glottal plosive, stop, glottalling, glottaling, occlusion, plosive, explosive, suction stop, obstruent, more...

Opposite:
glottal fricative

Adjectives:
consonant, fricative, rhotic, closed, egressive, occlusive, trill, open, tenuis, flapping, obstruent



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