"long vowel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: long vowels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} long vowel (plural long vowels)
  1. A vowel which is normally pronounced somewhat longer than other vowels (usually around 1½ to 2½ times the length of a short vowel); represented in the IPA by the addition of a colon-like symbol (ː, triangular colon), such as /aː/.
    Sense id: en-long_vowel-en-noun-M~B9HPVm
  2. (English pronunciation) Any of the vowels or diphthongs resulting from the Great Vowel Shift's effect on Middle English's original long vowels, and best exhibited in the names of the vowel letters A, E, I, O, U. In American lexicography their pronunciation is indicated by a macron, as, ē. Categories (topical): Phonetics Related terms: half-long vowel, long-vowel mark, overlong vowel, short vowel
    Sense id: en-long_vowel-en-noun-~NM936~r Disambiguation of Phonetics: 23 77 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 32 68 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 29 71

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for long vowel meaning in English (2.5kB)

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