GREAT VOWEL SHIFT

Meaning of GREAT VOWEL SHIFT in English

➡ Middle English

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GREAT VOWEL SHIFT — noun Usage: often capitalized G&V&S Date: 1909 a change in pronunciation of the long vowels of Middle English that began …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
GREAT VOWEL SHIFT — Ling. a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GREAT VOWEL SHIFT — Usage: often capitalized G&V&S Date: 1909 : a change in pronunciation of the long vowels of Middle English that began …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GREAT VOWEL SHIFT — Function: noun Usage: often cap G&V&S Date: 1909 : a change in pronunciation of the long vowels of Middle English …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
GREAT VOWEL SHIFT — [great vowel shift] n, often cap G&V&S (1909): a change in pronunciation of the long vowels of Middle English that …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GREAT VOWEL SHIFT — Великий сдвиг гласных
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
VOWEL — i in fit . The word also refers to a letter representing such a sound ( a , e , …
Английский словарь Британика
GREAT — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Carolus Magnus Charles the Great Great Learning Herod the Great Stephen the Great Theodoric …
Английский словарь Британика
VOWEL — I. ˈvau̇(ə)l noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French vouel, voieue, from Latin vocalis, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHIFT — I. ˈshift verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English shiften (also, to arrange, order), from Old English sciftan; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GREAT — I. ˈgrā]t, South often -re(ə)] or -rāə]; usu ]d.+V adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English grete, from Old English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
VOWEL — (a.) Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.
Английский словарь Webster
VOWEL — (n.) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each …
Английский словарь Webster
VOWEL — ( n. ) A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
VOWEL — ( a. ) Of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
VOWEL — — vowelless , adj. — vowellike , adj. — vowely, vowelly , adv. /vow"euhl/ , n. 1. Phonet. a. (in …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SHIFT — — shiftingly , adv. — shiftingness , n. /shift/ , v.t. 1. to put (something) aside and replace it by …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GREAT — — greatness , n. /grayt/ , adj., greater, greatest , adv., n., pl. greats , ( esp. collectively ) great …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GREAT — I. ˈgrāt, Southern also ˈgre(ə)t adjective Etymology: Middle English grete, from Old English grēat; akin to Old High German grōz …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
VOWEL — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French vowele, from Latin vocalis — more at vocalic Date: 14th century 1. : one …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
VOWEL — adj of or pertaining to a vowel; vocal. 2. vowel ·noun a vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by …
Webster English vocab
SHIFT — vt the act of shifting. 2. shift ·vt to change the clothing of; used reflexively. 3. shift ·vt to …
Webster English vocab
GREAT — superl pregnant; big (with young). 2. great ·noun the whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by …
Webster English vocab
VOWEL — [vow.el] n [ME, fr. MF vouel, fr. L vocalis--more at vocalic] (14c) 1: one of a class of speech sounds …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GREAT — [great] adj [ME grete, fr. OE great; akin to OHG groz large] (bef. 12c) 1 a: notably large in size: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
VOWEL — in human speech, sound in which the flow of air from the lungs passes through the mouth, which functions as …
Britannica English vocabulary
VOWEL — vowel BrE AmE ˈva ʊ ‿əl vaʊl AmE ˈvaʊ‿ ə l ▷ voweled, vowelled ˈva ʊ ‿əld vaʊld AmE ˈvaʊ‿ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
VOWEL — / ˈvaʊəl; NAmE / noun ( phonetics ) 1. a speech sound in which the mouth is open and the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHIFT — / ʃɪft; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb MOVE 1. shift (sth) (from ... ) (to ... ) to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GREAT
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
VOWEL — vow ‧ el /ˈvaʊəl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: vouel , from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHIFT — I. shift 1 S3 W3 AC /ʃɪft/ BrE AmE verb [ Language: Old English ; Origin: sciftan 'to divide, arrange' …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GREAT — I. great 1 S1 W1 /ɡreɪt/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative greater , superlative greatest ) [ Word Family: noun …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
VOWEL — n. 1 a speech-sound made with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, more open than a consonant …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHIFT — v. & n. --v. 1 intr. & tr. change or move or cause to change or move from one position …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GREAT
Английский основной разговорный словарь
VOWEL — n. 1 a speech-sound made with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, more open than a consonant …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHIFT — v. & n. v. 1 intr. & tr. change or move or cause to change or move from one position …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GREAT
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
VOWEL — n.1 a speech-sound made with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, more open than a consonant and …
Oxford English vocab
SHIFT — v. & n. --v. 1. intr. & tr. change or move or cause to change or move from one position …
Oxford English vocab
GREAT
Oxford English vocab
VOWEL — ( vowels) A vowel is a sound such as the ones represented in writing by the letters ‘a’, ‘e’ ‘i’, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GREAT — ( greater, greatest, greats) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
VOWEL — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES open vowel COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE close ▪ In some accents - particularly London …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHIFT
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GREAT — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a better/greater/deeper understanding ▪ All of this will lead to a better understanding of …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
VOWEL — [noun] [C] - a speech sound produced by human beings when the breath flows out through the mouth without being …
Cambridge English vocab
GREAT — (GOOD) [adjective] -er, -est [informal] - very good; wonderfula great surprise/idea/reliefWe had a great time last night at the party.It's …
Cambridge English vocab
VOWEL — n. Speech sound in which air from the lungs passes through the mouth with minimal obstruction and without audible friction, …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GREAT — adj. Alfred the Great Carolus Magnus Charles the Great Great Learning Herod the Great Stephen the Great Theodoric the Great …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
VOWEL — Synonyms and related words : accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHIFT — Synonyms and related words : Doppler effect, aberrancy, aberration, about ship, about the bush, about-face, accommodation, action, ad hoc measure, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
VOWEL — A gamester who does not immediately pay his losings, is said to vowel the winner, by repeating the vowels I. …
Slang English vocab
VOWEL — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long , short ▪ open , rounded ▪ back , front ▪ weak ▪ flat ▪ final …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
GREAT — adj. 25B6; adjective they showed great interest : CONSIDERABLE, substantial, significant, appreciable, special, serious; exceptional, extraordinary. a great expanse of …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GREAT — adj. 1 big, large, huge, immense, enormous, gigantic, giant, grand, extensive, prodigious, colossal, massive, vast, tremendous; spacious, capacious, mammoth, gargantuan, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
VOWEL — сущ. гласный (звук) back vowel closed vowel front vowel high vowel lax vowel long vowel middle vowel nasal vowel open …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHIFT — 1. сущ. 1) изменение, перемещение, сдвиг to bring about, produce a shift in ≈ производить, вносить изменения 2) а) смена, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GREAT — 1. прил. 1) а) большой, огромный, крупный (по объему, силе и т.д.) great blot great masses of population great talker …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
VOWEL — vowel.ogg 1. ʹvaʋəl n лингв. 1. гласный (звук) vowel gradation - аблаут, морфологически обусловленное чередование гласных 2. гласная буква 2. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SHIFT — shift.ogg 1. ʃıft n 1. 1> перемещение, перестановка, перенос population shift - а) миграция населения, переселение; б) (принудительное) перемещение населения; …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
GREAT — great.ogg 1. greıt n 1. (the great) 1> собир. сильные мира сего 2> великие писатели, классики 2. pl студ. жарг. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SHIFT — 1) замена; смена; изменение 2) перемещение; смещение; сдвиг || перемещать; смещать; сдвигать 3) горн. дислокация; сдвиг 4) метал. перекос ( …
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