vocable
Americannoun
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a word; term; name.
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a word considered only as a combination of certain sounds or letters, without regard to meaning.
adjective
noun
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any word, either written or spoken, regarded simply as a sequence of letters or spoken sounds, irrespective of its meaning
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a vocal sound; vowel
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of vocable
1520–30; < Latin vocābulum a word, a name, equivalent to vocā ( re ) to call + -bulum noun suffix
Example Sentences
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I regret to see that vile and barbarous vocable talented, stealing out of the newspapers into the leading reviews and most respectable publications of the day.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
The primitive vocable now conveyed a lively resentment, but there was the pleading of a patient sufferer in what followed.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
Often I had wished to test in speech the widely alleged merits of this vocable.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.
From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre
The vocable e is used to express strong emotion.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren
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