| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (II) Communication of Ideas | | Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| 2. Spoken Language |
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| 580. Voice. |
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| NOUN: | VOICE; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good -, fine -, powerful (loud) [See Loudness] -, musical [See Melody. Concord]- voice; intonation; tone (sound) [See Sound]- of voice.
UTTERANCE; vocalization; cry [See Cry]; strain, prolation [archaic]; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, - of articulation; stage whisper; delivery, attack.
ACCENT, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad -, strong -, pure -, native -, foreign- accent; pronunciation; orthoëpy; euphony (melody) [See Melody. Concord]; polyphonism, polyphony.
[WORDS SIMILARLY PRONOUNCED] homonyms.
VENTRILOQUISM or ventriloquy, ventrilocution, gastriloquism or gastriloquy [rare]; ventriloquist, gastriloquist [rare].
[SCIENCE OF VOICE], phonology; (sound) [See Sound].
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| VERB: | SPEAK, utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry (shout) [See Cry]; ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate [obs.], articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, emit; whisper, murmur, whisper in the ear; ventriloquize.
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| ADJECTIVE: | VOCAL, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, articulated, distinct, enunciative, accentuated, aspirated; euphonious (melodious) [See Melody. Concord]; whispered.
VENTRILOQUOUS, ventriloquistic, gastriloquial [rare], gastriloquous [rare].
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| QUOTATIONS: | - How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman.—Massinger
- The organ of the soul.—Longfellow
- Thy voice is a celestial melody.—Longfellow
- Speak in a monstrous little voice.—Midsummer Night’s Dream
- I was never so bethump’d with words.—King John
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