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nasal
Updated on 04/19/2018
adj.
of or relating to the nose.
adj.
denoting a speech sound produced by letting all or most of the airstream pass through the nasal (rather than the oral) cavity, for example, [ng] in
sing
, or the sound of
-on
in the French word
bon
.
n.
a nasal speech sound.
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