Overview of noun spirant

The noun spirant has 1 sense

• fricative consonant, fricative, spirant -- (a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract)

Overview of adj spirant

The adj spirant has 1 sense

• fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident -- (of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then'))