Definitions for nasally
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
na•salˈneɪ zəl(adj.)
of or pertaining to the nose.
Category: Anatomy
(of a speech sound) pronounced with the soft palate lowered and the voice issuing through the nose, either partly, as in French nasal vowels, or entirely, as in the sounds (m), (n), or the (ng) of
song.
Category: Phonetics
characterized by or resembling such sounds:
a nasal voice.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Phonetics
(n.)a nasal speech sound.
Category: Phonetics
Origin of nasal:
1375–1425; late ME < ML *nāsālis= L nās(us)nose+-ālis -al1
na′sal•ly(adv.)
na•salˈneɪ zəl(n.)
a nosepiece for a helmet.
Category: Heraldry
Origin of nasal:
1470–80; late ME < ML nāsāle, n. use of neut. of *nāsālisnasal1; r. ME nasel < MF < ML
Princeton's WordNet
nasally(adverb)
in a nasal manner
"inhaled nasally"
Wiktionary
nasally(Adverb)
In a nasal manner or tone.
nasally(Adverb)
By, through or using the nose.
Webster Dictionary
Nasally(adverb)
in a nasal manner; by the nose
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