Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character
Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; β distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
(grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.