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" History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Meaning of "strident" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STRIDENT

From Latin strīdēns, from strīdēre to make a grating sound.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF STRIDENT

ˈstraɪdənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRIDENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Strident is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STRIDENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of strident in the English dictionary

The definition of strident in the dictionary is having or making a loud or harsh sound. Other definition of strident is urgent, clamorous, or vociferous.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRIDENT

accident · aidant · antioxidant · coincident · confident · didn´t · dissident · dividant · eident · evident · incident · occident · overconfident · oxidant · precedent · president · provident · resident · rident · trident

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRIDENT

stridden · stride · stride piano · stridelegged · stridelegs · stridence · stridency · stridently · strider · strides · strideways · stridling · stridor · stridulance · stridulant · stridulantly · stridulate · stridulation · stridulator · stridulatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRIDENT

cerebral vascular accident · cerebrovascular accident · class president · co-president · dead president · ex-president · Executive Office of the President · executive president · hit-and-run accident · ident · improvident · independent · life president · nonresident · permanent resident · road accident · road traffic accident · self-confident · self-evident · shooting incident · vice president

Synonyms and antonyms of strident in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STRIDENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «strident» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «strident» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRIDENT

Find out the translation of strident to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of strident from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «strident» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

强硬的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

estridente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

strident
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

तीखी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تشددا
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

скрипучий
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

estridente
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

উচ্চনাদ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

véhément
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Strident
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

scharf
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

執拗な
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

귀에 거슬리는
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Strident
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điếc tai
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கடுமையானதாகவே
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

तिरकस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tiz
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

energico
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

ostry
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

скрипучий
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

strident
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

strident
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kras
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

högröstade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skingrende
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about strident

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2 QUOTES WITH «STRIDENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word strident.
1
Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
2
Godfrey Reggio
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRIDENT»

Discover the use of strident in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to strident and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Sound Shape of Language
V. STRIDENT ~ MELLOW In contraposition to vowels, characterized by sonority, consonants display an increased damping of sound and, on the other hand, a closer approximation to noise (see above, p.88f.). The optimal damping is achieved ...
Roman Jakobson, Linda R. Waugh, 2002
2
Turbulent Sounds: An Interdisciplinary Guide
Features for strident and non-strident fricatives. On this view labials, velars and uvulars are not specified for [strident] at all. We leave open which feature is necessary to contrast bilabials from labiodentals. For approaches to [strident] in which ...
Susanne Fuchs, Martine Toda, Marzena Żygis, 2010
3
Fundamentals of Language
While the consonantal feature, reduction of energy, is optimally represented by the stop which tends toward a single pulse, the non-vocalic feature, absence of sharply-defined formant structure, is optimally manifested by the strident consonant ...
Roman Jakobson, Morris Halle, 2002
4
Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing: Affricates ...
It will be shown that non-strident affricates are not only much rarer than strident affricates in the languages of the world but that they never contrast with stops. Interestingly, they often 'nearly contrast', i.e. affricate and stop differ only minimally ...
Wolfgang Kehrein, 2002
5
The Phonology of Coronals
The nonspecification of labials, velars and uvulars for [strident] in (12) is a consequence of the feature hierarchy in (13), which is presupposed by the authors cited above: (Other writers assume that [strident] is not a dependent of [ coronal]. See ...
T. Alan Hall, 1997
6
The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and ...
A feature that references this difference is [+/— strident]. This is one of the few features that has a primarily acoustic definition. The feature [strident] has the added advantage of being able to distinguish higher—pitched labi— odental [f] from ...
Elizabeth C. Zsiga, 2012
7
Second-Language Speech: Structure and Process
McCawley asserts that [strident] is predictable for obstruents with the same [ continuant] value, that is, the [+continuant] obstruents are all predictably [+strident ] and the [-continuant] obstruents are all predictably [-strident]. Affricates on the other ...
Allan James, Jonathan Leather, 1997
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Distinctive Feature Theory
0 [+strident] is a Root node dependent 0 [+strident] is a Coronal node dependent The second view has come to receive rather convincing support from a number of observations. First, if [+strident] characterizes only coronal sounds, as a ...
T. Alan Hall, 2001
9
Principles of Generative Phonology: An Introduction
Since the airstream is direct in [9], this sound is [-strident]. In [s], the tongue directs the airstream against the alveolar ridge. From there it must angle downward before exiting through the incisor teeth. Similarly, [+strident] characterizes the ...
John Tillotson Jensen, 2004
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Introductory Phonology
179. 4.6.2.3 [strident] In this book, the [+strident] sounds are the sibilants, such as [s, z, E, J4, l, 3, d3]. Only coronal fricatives and affricates can be [+strident]. [+ strident] sounds may be defined articulatorily as follows: the airstream is channeled ...
Bruce Hayes, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRIDENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term strident is used in the context of the following news items.
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Catholic Appalachian group asks US bishops to be strident on …
There have been calls for the 26 bishops of the region, which includes dozens of parish and organisational representatives throughout the 13-state stretching ... «Catholic Herald Online, Jul 15»
2
Strident acquires animal tale by Holman
Scottish publisher Strident has acquired an illustrated children's book by actor and anthropologist Hugh Holman. The Almost Animals is about Angle, ... «The Bookseller, Jun 15»
3
Strident Obama says gun control laws will change
San Francisco (AFP) - US President Barack Obama voiced confidence Friday that a "shocked and heartbroken" nation would eventually tighten permissive gun ... «Business Insider, Jun 15»
4
Strident opponent of Israel running for London mayor
(JTA) — George Galloway, a former British lawmaker who declared his district “an Israel-free zone,” said he will be a candidate for London mayor. Galloway ... «Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jun 15»
5
Secret Sheldon Adelson Summit Raises up to $50M for Strident Anti …
Pro-Israel activists headed home from Las Vegas last weekend resting easy that raising money to fight boycott and sanction campaigns on campus just got a lot ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jun 15»
6
Pamela Geller's Strident Voice Sparks Debate — and Violence
Long written off by mainstream critics as an Islamophobic crackpot, Pamela Geller is winning increasing sums from financial backers with her blood-and-thunder ... «Jewish Daily Forward, May 15»
7
Poll: Conservative Republicans show 'strident skepticism,' denial on …
The Republican right, alone in the American electorate, shows a “strident skepticism” on climate change and doubts its human causes, according to a Gallup ... «seattlepi.com, Apr 15»
8
Calmly Intent, Never Strident
Her songs reach from personal experience toward social concerns, and they're calmly assertive, never strident. The music traverses the Americas, from old ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
9
Point Austin: Waging Peace: Our strident politics demand war as the …
I long for a day in this country when proposals for war are debated as hotly and expansively as proposals for peace. Our polarized domestic politics are such that ... «Austin Chronicle, Apr 15»
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The Disappearance of the Strident Protest Novel: 'Uncle Tom's …
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, published on this day in 1862, is known for many things. Jane Smiley thinks it's an early exemplar of the Great ... «Flavorwire, Mar 15»
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