vow‧el /ˈvaʊəl/
noun [countable][
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: Old French;
Origin: vouel, from Latin vocalis; ⇒ vocal1]
1. one of the human speech sounds that you make by letting your breath flow out without closing any part of your mouth or throat
2. a letter of the alphabet used to represent a vowel. In English the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.
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