Meanings
adjectivevocular (not comparable)
- not comparablevocal; of the voice
1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist the series of vocular exclamations
2 more examples
The preposition ex, before an accented vowel, is sounded vocular, like egz
1791, The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine, volumes 6-7The vocular sound in bread.
1813, John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton, A Journey Through Albania: And Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, volume 2
Origin
From By surface analysis, vocule + -ar.
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APA
vocular. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vocular
MLA
“vocular.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vocular. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vocular,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vocular.
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