Vowel (Noun)
Meaning 1
A letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The English language contains five vowel sounds that can be spelled in several ways with the letters A, E, I, O, and U being the five vowel sounds of the alphabet.
- She identified the letters E and I as vowels that can appear in any combination within words of the English language.
- He realized that Y is sometimes a vowel because of its frequent appearance in English words like "my" or "fly".
- Learning to recognize vowel sounds was challenging for the students, so their teacher reviewed the different ways that vowels appear in English words.
- Although vowel usage and usage combinations may differ in some words from English language variations across cultures and dialects, five specific vowels continue to make up English's building blocks.