ɑːˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən ɪnˈtɜːpɹɪtə ɪnˈtɝpɹɪtɚ pɑːt pɑɹt pɐːt ˌɹɛpɹɪˈzɛnt(ət)ɪv voʊk(ə)l(a)ɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n ˈvoʊ.kə.laɪz

a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated the voice of the law the Times is not the voice of New York conservatism has many voices give voice to He voiced his concern utter with vibrating vocal chords the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech A shrill voice sounded behind us the ability to speak he lost his voice the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music he tried to sing the tenor part expressing in coherent verbal form the articulation of my feelings I gave voice to my feelings the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract a singer takes good care of his voice the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression the wee small voice of conscience the voice of experience he said his voices told him to do it a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance the noisy voice of the waterfall the incessant voices of the artillery an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government (metonymy) a singer he wanted to hear trained voices sing it (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.