Definition of Guttural

1. Noun. A consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat.

Exact synonyms: Guttural Consonant, Pharyngeal, Pharyngeal Consonant
Generic synonyms: Consonant

2. Adjective. Like the sounds of frogs and crows. "Acres of guttural frogs"
Exact synonyms: Croaky
Similar to: Cacophonic, Cacophonous
Derivative terms: Croak

3. Adjective. Relating to or articulated in the throat. "The glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds"
Partainyms: Throat

Definition of Guttural

1. a. Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.

2. n. A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.

Definition of Guttural

1. Adjective. Sounding harsh and throaty. ¹

2. Adjective. (medicine anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat. ¹

3. Noun. A harsh and throaty spoken sound ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Guttural

1. a throaty sound [n -S]

Medical Definition of Guttural

1. Relating to the throat. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guttural

gutties
guttiest
guttifer
guttiferous
guttifers
guttiform
gutting
guttings
guttle
guttled
guttler
guttlers
guttles
guttling
guttulous
guttural (current term)
guttural consonant
guttural duct
guttural pouch
guttural pulse
guttural rale
gutturalism
gutturalisms
gutturality
gutturalization
gutturalizations
gutturalize
gutturalized
gutturalizes
gutturalizing

Literary usage of Guttural

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"Weasel (the small weasel), niach- schipka (uch guttural). ... (hach with emphasis and nasal; M and huh tin low; ach guttural). ..."

2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... (ch guttural). Head-dress (the long hood of feathers), ... (ach guttural; ivu and e separated; ... (o barely audible; cho merely a guttural aspirate). ..."

3. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Catarrh of the guttural pouch is a collective name for acute, or more commonly chronic inflammations of the mucosa of the guttural pouch, which lead to an ..."

4. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"Where a Sheva is required, the guttural takes without exception a composite Sh"va, ... through the influence of the guttural, even in transitive verbs, ..."

5. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"Some other languages employ the nasal series (2) concurrently with the open or oral series (3), the guttural series (i) having apparently disappeared ..."

6. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language by Isaac Nordheimer (1842)
"Those whose first radical is a guttural, termed Verbs B guttural. 2. Those whose second radical is a guttural, termed Verbs y guttural. 3. ..."

7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in or as in the throat: as, the guttural (superior thyroid) artery; a guttural sound; guttural speech. guttering ..."

8. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"Its upper or tympanic orifice is narrow ; the inferior, guttural, or pharyngeal orifice, situated near and behind the guttural openings of the nasal ..."

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