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Meaning of "undervoice" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDERVOICE

undervoice  [ˈʌndəˌvɔɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDERVOICE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Undervoice is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNDERVOICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of undervoice in the English dictionary

The definition of undervoice in the dictionary is an undertone or low voice.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDERVOICE


antichoice
ˌæntɪˈtʃɔɪs
Boyce
bɔɪs
choice
tʃɔɪs
devoice
diːˈvɔɪs
invoice
ˈɪnvɔɪs
Joyce
dʒɔɪs
mischoice
ˈmɪsˌtʃɔɪs
outvoice
ˌaʊtˈvɔɪs
rejoice
rɪˈdʒɔɪs
revoice
riːˈvɔɪs
Rolls-Royce
ˌrəʊlzˈrɔɪs
Royce
rɔɪs
unvoice
ʌnˈvɔɪs
voice
vɔɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDERVOICE

underutilization
underutilize
underutilized
undervaluation
undervalue
undervalued
undervaluer
undervaluing
undervest
underviewer
undervote
underwater
underwear
underweight
underwent
underwhelm
underwhelmed
underwhelming
underwing
underwire

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDERVOICE

active voice
chest voice
consumer choice
export invoice
head voice
Hobson´s choice
in voice
middle voice
multiple choice
multiple-choice
of choice
out of voice
pro-choice
pro forma invoice
sailor´s choice
sailor´s-choice
share of voice
singing voice
speaking voice
with one voice

Synonyms and antonyms of undervoice in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «undervoice» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDERVOICE

Find out the translation of undervoice to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of undervoice from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «undervoice» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

undervoice
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

undervoice
570 millions of speakers

English

undervoice
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

undervoice
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

undervoice
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вполголоса
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

undervoice
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

undervoice
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

undervoice
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undervoice
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

undervoice
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

undervoice
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

undervoice
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Undervoice
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

undervoice
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

undervoice
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न वाटता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

undervoice
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

undervoice
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

undervoice
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

напівголосно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

undervoice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

undervoice
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

undervoice
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

undervoice
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

undervoice
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of undervoice

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERVOICE»

The term «undervoice» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.673 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERVOICE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «undervoice» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «undervoice» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERVOICE»

Discover the use of undervoice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to undervoice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction
As Hoover reflects, somewhat ruefully, the voice of the dominant power has ' always' been accompanied by what he thinks of as an 'undervoice'; a dangerous vocal undertow which is difficult to separate from the official language, but which has ...
Peter Boxall, 2006
2
American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture
Despite his efforts, however, the Director knows that he will never totally silence the "undervoice" ( U 563) welling up from the psychic and social underground. That undervoice speaks during the Black- and-White Ball scene (set in 1966), when ...
Mark Osteen, 2000
3
Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change
SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (1963) If Rich could say of The Diamond Cutters that it was her "last-ditch effort to block . . . the undervoice of my own poetry" (CEP xix), in Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law she removes all block to or ...
Cheri Colby Langdell, 2004
4
TABOO, MAGIC, SPIRITS: A STUDY OF PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS IN ...
Prayers Uttered in an Undervoice Normallyprayers wereuttered aloud by the Romans. But wehavereason to believethatattimes they were chanted inan undervoice.We know that magic riteswere commonly accompanied by anincantation which ...
ELI EDWARD BURRISS, 2014
5
Performing the Past: A Study of Israeli Settlement Museums
This undervoice breaks through at particular narrative junctures, as in the story about the pioneer Yankelevich, a typical pioneer and an extraordinary person who Binyamin claimed he had known personally and admired a lot (interview, ...
Tamar Katriel, 2013
6
Modernism
This is the lesson of the undervoice in The Making ofAmericans” (Ruddick [1990], 91). The formal principle of the incantatory repetition not only resists the linear and progressive narrativity of bourgeois poetics, but through the association with  ...
Astradur Eysteinsson, Vivian Liska, 2007
7
Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli ...
The narrative voice celebrating “progress” is repeatedly interrupted by a nostalgic undervoice filled with longing for a past shaped by heroic values and deeds, an ethos of production glorifying manual labor and a close contact with the land as ...
Eyal Ben-Ari, Yoram Bilu, 2012
8
The Troop
The new, conflicting voice—the Undervoice, as Tim now thought of it—boomed back: How could you stop now, even ifyou wanted to? Don't you want to know, Tim? Don't you NEED to know? The blade slit through bands of taut sinew to reveal ...
Nick Cutter, 2014
9
A Door Ajar : Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson: ...
She thinks of this as the "undervoice" of straightforward discourse and often uses the image of stuttering or stammering to describe it: This tradition that I hope I am part of has involved a breaking of boundaries of all sorts. It involves a fracturing ...
Thomas Gardner Professor of English Virginia Tech, 2006
10
Frederica
not invited to enter, but the door was opened to him by his lordship's very superior valet, who appeared to regard his intrusion as a form of sacrilege, demanding to know, in an outraged undervoice, what he wanted. 'It's urgent, Mr Knapp!
Georgette Heyer, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERVOICE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term undervoice is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Powerful Poetry and Politics of Adrienne Rich
... “many of the poems in The Diamond Cutters seem to me now a last-ditch effort to block, with assimilation and technique, the undervoice of my own poetry. «Slate Magazine, Mar 12»

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