Usually means: Harsh, loud, and grating sound.
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  2. strident: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strident: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. strident: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. strident: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strident: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. strident: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. strident: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Strident: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Strident: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strident: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strident: Rhymezone
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  1. Strident: Lexicon of Linguistics

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  1. strident: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
adjective:  Grating or obnoxious
adjective:  (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides
noun:  (linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.

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