THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT

Meaning of THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT in English

a series of changes between medieval and modern English affecting the long vowels of the standard language.

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Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

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
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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
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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
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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 ( …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
SHIFT — 1) замена; смена; изменение 2) перемещение; смещение; сдвиг || перемещать; смещать; сдвигать 3) горн. дислокация; сдвиг 4) метал. перекос (дефект отливки) 5) переключение 6) авто …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
SHIFT — 1) дежурный 2) переключать 3) переключение 4) перекос формы 5) переместить 6) перемещать 7) перенос 8) переносить 9) перераспределять 10) перетасовка 11) сдвиг 12) сдвигать 13) сдвигаться 14) сдвиговый 15) смещать 16) смещаться 17) смещение • backward shift …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
VOWEL — vowel сущ.а) гласный звук - back vowel - closed vowel - front vowel - high vowel - lax vowel - …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
GREAT — great прил.1) а) большой, огромный, крупный (по объему, силе и т.д.) - great blot - great masses of population - …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
VOWEL — 1. ʹvaʋəl n лингв. 1. гласный (звук) vowel gradation - аблаут, морфологически обусловленное чередование гласных 2. гласная буква 2. ʹvaʋəl …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
SHIFT — 1. ʃıft n 1. 1> перемещение, перестановка, перенос population shift - а) миграция населения, переселение; б) (принудительное) перемещение населения; the …
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