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Noun voice has 11 senses

voice - the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech; "A shrill voice sounded behind us"
--₁ is a kind of sound
--₁ has particulars: androglossia
voice, vocalization, vocalisation, phonation, vox - 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"
--₂ is a kind of communication
--₂ has particulars: singing voice; sprechgesang, sprechstimme; voice over
Derived form: verb voice₂
voice - a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; "the noisy voice of the waterfall"; "the incessant voices of the artillery"
--₃ is a kind of sound
articulation, voice - expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings"
--₄ is a kind of expression

Derived form: verb voice₁
voice - 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"
--₅ is a kind of means, agency, way

Derived form: verb voice₁
voice - 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"
--₆ is a kind of communication
voice - (metonymy) a singer; "he wanted to hear trained voices sing it"
--₇ is a kind of singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser
spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice - an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government"
--₈ is a kind of advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
--₈ has particulars:
ambassador; flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack; mouthpiece, mouth; spokesman; spokeswoman; traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman
voice - the ability to speak; "he lost his voice"
--₉ is a kind of physical ability
--₉ has particulars: lung-power
Derived form: verb voice₂
voice - (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
--₁₀ is a kind of grammatical relation
--₁₀ has particulars: active voice, active; passive voice, passive
part, voice - the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part"
--₁₁ is a kind of tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
--₁₁ has particulars:
primo; secondo; voice part; accompaniment, musical accompaniment, backup, support; bass, bass part

Verb voice has 2 senses

voice - give voice to; "He voiced his concern"
--₁ is one way to express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to

Derived forms: noun voice₅, noun voice₄, noun voicer₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise - utter with vibrating vocal chords
--₂ is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Antonyms: devoice

Derived forms: noun voice₉, noun voice₂
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something