Definitions for murmuring
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, mussitationnoun

   a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech

2. grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, mutteringadjective

   a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone

3. murmuring, susurrant, whisperingadjective

   making a low continuous indistinct sound

   "like murmuring waves"; "susurrant voices"

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1. murmuring

   Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound. A simple breathy phonation, [ɦ] (not actually a fricative consonant, as a literal reading of the IPA chart would suggest), can sometimes be heard as an allophone of English /h/ between vowels, such as in the word behind, for some speakers. In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages like Sanskrit and Hindi and comparative Indo-European studies, breathy consonants are often called voiced aspirated, as in the Hindi and Sanskrit stops normally denoted bh, dh, ḍh, jh, and gh and the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European phoneme gʷʰ. From an articulatory perspective, that terminology is inaccurate, as breathy voice is a different type of phonation from aspiration. However, breathy and aspirated stops are acoustically similar in that in both cases there is a delay in the onset of full voicing. In the history of several languages, like Greek and some varieties of Chinese, breathy stops have developed into aspirated stops.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Murmuring

   of Murmur

2. Murmuring

   uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining

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1. • Sound

How to pronounce murmuring?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of murmuring in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of murmuring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of murmuring in a Sentence

1. Graham Nash:

   Thousands and thousands of people. Rain. Mud. Candles. People. Murmuring. Sound. It was unbelievable, the size of something like Woodstock - things get very hazy. They get very hazy if you're straight. They get incredibly hazy if you were high. And that's what we were so I have very few memories of interaction backstage.

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