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vow·el
 vowel
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- pronunciation:
- vaUl
[or]
vaU
 l
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noun |
| definition 1: |
In the English alphabet, a vowel is any of the letters "a," "e," "i," "o," "u," and sometimes "y."
Anna, Emily, Irina, and Olivia all have names that begin and end with vowels.
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| definition 2: |
The sounds that these letters stand for are also called vowels. Often in English, the same vowel letters are used to stand for different vowel sounds. For example, the letter "e" has a different vowel sound in the word "bed" than it does in the word "bee." The vowel letter "a" has a different vowel sound in the word "bat" than in the word "ball." There are only five (or six) vowel letters in English, but there are many more vowel sounds than that.
"Pie" and "my" are rhymes. They end in the same vowel even though one is spelled with "ie" and the other is spelled with "y." |
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