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class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#English">1 English</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Alternative_forms">1.1 Alternative forms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Pronunciation">1.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Etymology_1">1.3 Etymology 1</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="#Noun">1.3.1 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-6"><a href="#Synonyms">1.3.1.1 Synonyms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-7"><a href="#Derived_terms">1.3.1.2 Derived terms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-8"><a href="#Descendants">1.3.1.3 Descendants</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-9"><a href="#Translations">1.3.1.4 Translations</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Etymology_2">1.4 Etymology 2</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11"><a href="#Verb">1.4.1 Verb</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-12"><a href="#Related_terms">1.4.1.1 Related terms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-13"><a href="#Translations_2">1.4.1.2 Translations</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#References">1.5 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Anagrams">1.6 Anagrams</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Middle_English">2 Middle English</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Noun_2">2.1 Noun</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: English">edit</a>]</div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/44px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/66px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/88px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><div style="margin-left: 60px;">English <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article on:<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/voice" class="extiw" title="w:voice">voice</a></div></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/voice" class="extiw" title="w:voice">Wikipedia </a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81571951">.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): /vɔɪs/</li> <li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r50165410">.mw-parser-output .k-player .k-attribution{visibility:hidden}</style><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="en-us-voice.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/En-us-voice.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/03/En-us-voice.ogg/En-us-voice.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-us-voice.ogg" title="File:en-us-voice.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%94%C9%AAs" title="Rhymes:English/ɔɪs">-ɔɪs</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_1">Etymology 1</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Etymology 1">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Middle_English">voice</a>, <a href="/wiki/voys#Middle_English" title="voys">voys</a>, <a href="/wiki/vois#Middle_English" title="vois">vois</a>, borrowed from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language" class="extiw" title="w:Anglo-Norman language">Anglo-Norman</a> <a href="/wiki/voiz#Old_French" title="voiz">voiz</a>, <a href="/wiki/voys#Old_French" title="voys">voys</a>, <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Old_French">voice</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" class="extiw" title="w:Old French">Old French</a> <a href="/wiki/vois#Old_French" title="vois">vois</a>, <a href="/wiki/voiz#Old_French" title="voiz">voiz</a> (Modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" class="extiw" title="w:French language">French</a> <a href="/wiki/voix#French" title="voix">voix</a>), from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/vocem#Latin" title="vocem">vōcem</a>, accusative form of <a href="/wiki/vox#Latin" title="vox">vōx</a> (“voice”), from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/w%E1%B9%93k%CA%B7s" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wṓkʷs">*wṓkʷs</a>, <a href="/wiki/root_noun" title="root noun">root noun</a> from <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wek%CA%B7-" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wekʷ-">*wekʷ-</a> (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit" class="extiw" title="w:Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D#Sanskrit" title="वाच्">वाच्</a> (vāc), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="w:Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/%E1%BD%84%CF%88#Ancient_Greek" title="ὄψ">ὄψ</a> (óps), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Persian language">Persian</a> <a href="/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2#Persian" title="آواز">آواز</a> (âvâz). Displaced native <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/wiki/steven#Middle_English" title="steven">steven</a> (“voice”) (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/stefn#Old_English" title="stefn">stefn</a> (see <a href="/wiki/steven#English" title="steven">steven</a>)), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/hleo%C3%BEor#Noun" title="hleoþor">hlēoþor</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/wo%C3%BE#Noun_2" title="woþ">woþ</a>. Broadly overtook <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/reord#Noun" title="reord">reord</a>. Compare <a href="/wiki/advocate#English" title="advocate">advocate</a>, <a href="/wiki/advowson#English" title="advowson">advowson</a>, <a href="/wiki/avouch#English" title="avouch">avouch</a>, <a href="/wiki/convoke#English" title="convoke">convoke</a>, <a href="/wiki/epic#English" title="epic">epic</a>, <a href="/wiki/vocal#English" title="vocal">vocal</a>, <a href="/wiki/vouch#English" title="vouch">vouch</a>, <a href="/wiki/vowel#English" title="vowel">vowel</a>. <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#doublet" title="Appendix:Glossary">Doublet</a> of <a href="/wiki/vox#English" title="vox">vox</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun">Noun</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> voice (plural <a href="/wiki/voices#English" title="voices">voices</a>) <ol><li>Sound <a href="/wiki/utter" title="utter">uttered</a> by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">She has a pleasant voice.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a> 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear" class="extiw" title="w:King Lear">The Tragedie of King Lear</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act V, scene iii], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mrvvilliamshakes00shak/page/309/mode/1up">page 309</a>, column 1:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Her voice was euer ſoft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1629, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton" class="extiw" title="w:John Milton">John Milton</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Morning_of_Christ%27s_Nativity" class="extiw" title="w:On the Morning of Christ's Nativity">On the Morning of Christs Nativity</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%27s_1645_Poems" class="extiw" title="w:Milton's 1645 Poems">Poems of Mr. John Milton, […]</a></cite>, London: […] Ruth Raworth for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Moseley" class="extiw" title="w:Humphrey Moseley">Humphrey Mosely</a>, […], published 1646, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606951673">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/poemsofmrjohnmil00milt/page/2/mode/1up">page 2</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And joyn thy voice unto the Angel Quire,</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in <cite>BBC Sport</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/9446263.stm">[1]</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner had backed manager Houllier during the week and asked for the fans to get behind their team as they looked to steer themselves away from the relegation zone. To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/phonetics" title="phonetics">phonetics</a>) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; <a href="/wiki/sonant" title="sonant">sonant</a>, or <a href="/wiki/intonated" title="intonated">intonated</a>, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere <a href="/wiki/breath" title="breath">breath</a> sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/tone" title="tone">tone</a> or <a href="/wiki/sound" title="sound">sound</a> <a href="/wiki/emitted" title="emitted">emitted</a> by an <a href="/wiki/object" title="object">object</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1611, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Bible">The Holy Bible, [<span title="Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be Read in Churches.">…]</a></cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version">King James Version</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Barker (printer)">Robert Barker</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/964384981">→OCLC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Kings" class="extiw" title="w:Books of Kings">1 Kings</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_1-Kings-Chapter-19/#12">19:12</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1611, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Bible">The Holy Bible, [<span title="Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be Read in Churches.">…]</a></cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version">King James Version</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Barker (printer)">Robert Barker</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/964384981">→OCLC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Job">Job</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Job-Chapter-40/#9">40:9</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1611, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Bible">The Holy Bible, [<span title="Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be Read in Churches.">…]</a></cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version">King James Version</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Barker (printer)">Robert Barker</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/964384981">→OCLC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms" class="extiw" title="w:Psalms">Psalms</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Psalms-Chapter-93/#3">93:3</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The floods have lifted up their voice.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1712, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison" class="extiw" title="w:Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato,_a_Tragedy" class="extiw" title="w:Cato, a Tragedy">Cato, a Tragedy</a></cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart Leaps at the trumpet’s voice.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>The faculty or power of utterance <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">to cultivate the voice</div></dd></dl></li> <li>That which is <a href="/wiki/communicated" title="communicated">communicated</a>; <a href="/wiki/message" title="message">message</a>; <a href="/wiki/meaning" title="meaning">meaning</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1611, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Bible">The Holy Bible, [<span title="Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be Read in Churches.">…]</a></cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version">King James Version</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Barker (printer)">Robert Barker</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/964384981">→OCLC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Galatians" class="extiw" title="w:Epistle to the Galatians">Galatians</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Galatians-Chapter-4/#20">4:20</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">I desire to bee present with you now, and to change my voyce, for I stand in doubt of you.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a> 1606 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth" class="extiw" title="w:Macbeth">The Tragedie of Macbeth</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act V, scene vii]:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">My voice is in my sword.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li>17th century, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fell_(bishop)" class="extiw" title="w:John Fell (bishop)">John Fell</a>, unknown work <dl><dd>Let us call on God in the voice of his church.</dd></dl></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative" title="Appendix:Glossary">figurative</a>) An <a href="/wiki/express" title="express">expressed</a> <a href="/wiki/opinion" title="opinion">opinion</a>, <a href="/wiki/choice" title="choice">choice</a>, <a href="/wiki/will" title="will">will</a>, <a href="/wiki/desire" title="desire">desire</a>, or <a href="/wiki/wish" title="wish">wish</a>; the <a href="/wiki/right" title="right">right</a> or <a href="/wiki/ability" title="ability">ability</a> to <a href="/wiki/make" title="make">make</a> such <a href="/wiki/expression" title="expression">expression</a> or to <a href="/wiki/have" title="have">have</a> it <a href="/wiki/consider" title="consider">considered</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#c." title="Appendix:Glossary"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr></a> 1608–1609 (date written), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare" class="extiw" title="w:William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus" class="extiw" title="w:Coriolanus">The Tragedy of Coriolanus</a>”, in <cite>Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio" class="extiw" title="w:First Folio">First Folio</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jaggard" class="extiw" title="w:William Jaggard">Isaac Iaggard</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blount" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Blount">Ed[ward] Blount</a>, published 1623, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/606515358">→OCLC</a>, [Act II, scene iii]:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Sicinius. How now, my masters! have you chose this man? / 1st Citizen. He has our voices, sir.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1697, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil" class="extiw" title="w:Virgil">Virgil</a>, “(please specify the book number)”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden" class="extiw" title="w:John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, transl., <cite>The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […]</cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Tonson" class="extiw" title="w:Jacob Tonson">Jacob Tonson</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/403869432">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice / Of holy senates, and elect by voice.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2019 March 24, Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, “Thailand's youth demand change ahead of elections”, in <cite>CNN</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/22/asia/thai-election-young-voters-intl/index.html">[2]</a>, retrieved 2019-03-24:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Like many of the 7 million other first time voters, she came of age during half a decade of military rule that has governed the country since former general turned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power in a 2014 coup. "We have had our voice taken away for five years," she says.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a>) <a href="/wiki/command" title="command">Command</a>; <a href="/wiki/precept" title="precept">precept</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1611, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" class="extiw" title="w:Bible">The Holy Bible, [<span title="Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: & with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Reuised, by His Maiesties Speciall Comandement. Appointed to be Read in Churches.">…]</a></cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version">King James Version</a>), London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer)" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Barker (printer)">Robert Barker</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/964384981">→OCLC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Deuteronomy" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Deuteronomy">Deuteronomy</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Deuteronomy-Chapter-8/#20">8:20</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall yee perish; because ye would not be obedient vnto the voice of the Lord your God.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>One who speaks; a <a href="/wiki/speak" title="speak">speaker</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1850, [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" class="extiw" title="w:Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred, Lord Tennyson</a>], <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H." class="extiw" title="w:In Memoriam A.H.H.">In Memoriam</a></cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Moxon" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Moxon">Edward Moxon</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/3968433">→OCLC</a>, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">a potent voice of Parliament.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2016, Sonia Tascon, Tyson Wils, <cite>Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject</cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The inclusion of transgender voices further disrupts the homonormalization of sex and identity evident in popular LGBTQ cinema.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2024 July 25, Katie Rogers, quoting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden" class="extiw" title="w:Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>, “Biden Says It Is Time to Step Aside for a Fresh, Younger Voice”, in <cite>The New York Times</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/us/politics/biden-address.html">[3]</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">→ISSN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">President Biden told the American public in an Oval Office address on Wednesday that he had abandoned his re-election campaign because there is “a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices — yes, younger voices.”</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/literature" title="literature">literature</a>) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain <a href="/wiki/tone" title="tone">tone</a> or feeling.</li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/grammar" title="grammar">grammar</a>) 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. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">The verbal system of Latin has two voices, active and passive.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2012, Drew Arlen Mannetter, <cite>I Came, I Saw, I Translated</cite>, page 197:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">There are four tenses of the subjunctive (present, perfect, imperfect, and pluperfect) and three voices (active, passive, and deponent). [...] See 12.8 for the formation of the deponent voice.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/music" title="music">music</a>) In <a href="/wiki/harmony" title="harmony">harmony</a>, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of <a href="/wiki/composition" title="composition">composition</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">The theme of this piece constantly migrates between the three voice parts.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>, <a href="/wiki/IRC" title="IRC">IRC</a>) A <a href="/wiki/flag" title="flag">flag</a> associated with a <a href="/wiki/user" title="user">user</a> on a <a href="/wiki/channel" title="channel">channel</a>, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1999 February 20, Cory McWilliams, “IRC oddities”, in <cite><kbd>alt.irc</kbd></cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.irc/umWK_tLv3fQ/HuTao6r45RIJ">[4]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet" class="extiw" title="w:Usenet">Usenet</a>), message-ID <7amrhu$17kg@enews2.newsguy.com>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Synonyms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>(sound of human speech): <a href="/wiki/steven#English" title="steven">steven</a> (obsolete), <a href="/wiki/reard#English" title="reard">reard</a> (obsolete or dialectal)</li> <li>(opinion): <a href="/wiki/steven#English" title="steven">steven</a> (obsolete), <a href="/wiki/vote#English" title="vote">vote</a>, <a href="/wiki/say-so#English" title="say-so">say-so</a></li> <li>(voice of verbs): <a href="/wiki/diathesis#English" title="diathesis">diathesis</a>, <a href="/wiki/gender#English" title="gender">gender</a> (of verbs), <a href="/wiki/grammatical#English" title="grammatical">grammatical</a> voice, <a href="/wiki/verbal#English" title="verbal">verbal</a> voice</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="term-list-header">Terms derived from voice (noun)</div><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="4"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/at_the_top_of_one%27s_voice#English" title="at the top of one's voice">at the top of one's voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/chest_voice#English" title="chest voice">chest voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/chipmunk_voice#English" title="chipmunk voice">chipmunk voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/cockpit_voice_recorder#English" title="cockpit voice recorder">cockpit voice recorder</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/creaky_voice#English" title="creaky voice">creaky voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Dalek_voice#English" title="Dalek voice">Dalek voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/devoice#English" title="devoice">devoice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/find_one%27s_voice#English" title="find one's voice">find one's voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/give_voice#English" title="give voice">give voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/good_voice_to_beg_bacon#English" title="good voice to beg bacon">good voice to beg bacon</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/head_voice#English" title="head voice">head voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/indoors_voice#English" title="indoors voice">indoors voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/indoor_voice#English" title="indoor voice">indoor voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/in_good_voice#English" title="in good voice">in good voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/inner_voice#English" title="inner voice">inner voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/in_one_voice#English" title="in one voice">in one voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/inside_voice#English" title="inside voice">inside voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/in_voice#English" title="in voice">in voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/keep_one%27s_voice_down#English" title="keep one's voice down">keep one's voice down</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/library_voice#English" title="library voice">library voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/like_the_sound_of_one%27s_own_voice#English" title="like the sound of one's own voice">like the sound of one's own voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/non-voice#English" title="non-voice">non-voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/outdoors_voice#English" title="outdoors voice">outdoors voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/outdoor_voice#English" title="outdoor voice">outdoor voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/outside_voice#English" title="outside voice">outside voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/raise_one%27s_voice#English" title="raise one's voice">raise one's voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sexy_baby_voice#English" title="sexy baby voice">sexy baby voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/singing_voice#English" title="singing voice">singing voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/speaking_voice#English" title="speaking voice">speaking voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/storm-voice#English" title="storm-voice">storm-voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/student_voice#English" title="student voice">student voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/the_voice_of_the_people,_the_voice_of_God#English" title="the voice of the people, the voice of God">the voice of the people, the voice of God</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/throw_one%27s_voice#English" title="throw one's voice">throw one's voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/tone_of_voice#English" title="tone of voice">tone of voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/undervoice#English" title="undervoice">undervoice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_acting#English" title="voice acting">voice acting</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice-activated#English" title="voice-activated">voice-activated</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_actor#English" title="voice actor">voice actor</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_actress#English" title="voice actress">voice actress</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_artist#English" title="voice artist">voice artist</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voicebank#English" title="voicebank">voicebank</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_box#English" title="voice box">voice box</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_call#English" title="voice call">voice call</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_calling_in_the_wilderness#English" title="voice calling in the wilderness">voice calling in the wilderness</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_changer#English" title="voice changer">voice changer</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_coil#English" title="voice coil">voice coil</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_command#English" title="voice command">voice command</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_crack#English" title="voice crack">voice crack</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_crying_in_the_wilderness#English" title="voice crying in the wilderness">voice crying in the wilderness</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voiced#English" title="voiced">voiced</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_evac#English" title="voice evac">voice evac</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_evacuation#English" title="voice evacuation">voice evacuation</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_for_print#English" title="voice for print">voice for print</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_glide#English" title="voice glide">voice glide</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_in_the_wilderness#English" title="voice in the wilderness">voice in the wilderness</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voiceless#English" title="voiceless">voiceless</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voicelet#English" title="voicelet">voicelet</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_lift#English" title="voice lift">voice lift</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_like_a_foghorn#English" title="voice like a foghorn">voice like a foghorn</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_mail#English" title="voice mail">voice mail</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_mailbox#English" title="voice mailbox">voice mailbox</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_message#English" title="voice message">voice message</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_of_reason#English" title="voice of reason">voice of reason</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_onset_time#English" title="voice onset time">voice onset time</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice-over#English" title="voice-over">voice-over</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_over_broadband#English" title="voice over broadband">voice over broadband</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_over_IP#English" title="voice over IP">voice over IP</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voiceprint#English" title="voiceprint">voiceprint</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_procedure_alphabet#English" title="voice procedure alphabet">voice procedure alphabet</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_quality#English" title="voice quality">voice quality</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_recognition#English" title="voice recognition">voice recognition</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_synth#English" title="voice synth">voice synth</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_synthesis#English" title="voice synthesis">voice synthesis</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_synthesizer#English" title="voice synthesizer">voice synthesizer</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_talent#English" title="voice talent">voice talent</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice-under#English" title="voice-under">voice-under</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_verify#English" title="voice verify">voice verify</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_vote#English" title="voice vote">voice vote</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_voting#English" title="voice voting">voice voting</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/voice_wrap#English" title="voice wrap">voice wrap</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/with_one_voice#English" title="with one voice">with one voice</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="term-list-header">Grammatical terms derived from voice (noun)</div><div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="4"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/active_voice#English" title="active voice">active voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/antipassive_voice#English" title="antipassive voice">antipassive voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lexical_middle_voice#English" title="lexical middle voice">lexical middle voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/mediopassive_voice#English" class="mw-redirect" title="mediopassive voice">mediopassive voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/middle_voice#English" title="middle voice">middle voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/neuter_voice#English" title="neuter voice">neuter voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/passive_voice#English" title="passive voice">passive voice</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/syntactic_middle_voice#English" title="syntactic middle voice">syntactic middle voice</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Descendants">Descendants</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Descendants">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>→ Russian: <a href="/wiki/%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81#Russian" title="войс">войс</a> (vojs)<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r68481116">.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title]{cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .desc-arr[title="uncertain"]{font-size:.7em;vertical-align:super}</style> (slang, from "voice message")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations">Translations</h5>[<a 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title="voices">voices</a>, present participle <a href="/wiki/voicing#English" title="voicing">voicing</a>, simple past and past participle <a href="/wiki/voiced#English" title="voiced">voiced</a>) <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>) To give <a href="/wiki/utterance" title="utterance">utterance</a> or <a href="/wiki/expression" title="expression">expression</a> to; to utter; to <a href="/wiki/publish" title="publish">publish</a>; to <a href="/wiki/announce" title="announce">announce</a> <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">He voiced the sentiments of the nation.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1893, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Wood_Besant" class="extiw" title="w:Annie Wood Besant">Annie Wood Besant</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Autobiography" class="extiw" title="s:An Autobiography">An Autobiography</a></cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">How often he would voice his love of England, his admiration of her Parliament, his pride in her history.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1625, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon" class="extiw" title="w:Francis Bacon">Francis [Bacon]</a>, “Of Great Place”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon)" class="extiw" title="w:Essays (Francis Bacon)">The Essayes […]</a></cite>, 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/863521290">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Rather assume thy right in silence and […] then voice it with claims and challenges.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon" class="extiw" title="w:Francis Bacon">Francis Bacon</a>], <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Reign_of_King_Henry_VII" class="extiw" title="w:History of the Reign of King Henry VII">The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […]</a></cite>, London: […] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stansby" class="extiw" title="w:William Stansby">W[illiam] Stansby</a> for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1086746628">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/phonology" title="phonology">phonology</a>) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.</li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>) To fit for producing the <a href="/wiki/proper" title="proper">proper</a> <a href="/wiki/sound" title="sound">sounds</a>; to <a href="/wiki/regulate" title="regulate">regulate</a> the tone of <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">voice the pipes of an organ</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>) To <a href="/wiki/vote" title="vote">vote</a>; to <a href="/wiki/elect" title="elect">elect</a>; to <a href="/wiki/appoint" title="appoint">appoint</a></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">intransitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>) To <a href="/wiki/clamor" title="clamor">clamor</a>; to cry out<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1638, Francis Quarles, <cite>Divine Fancies: Digeſted Into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Obſervations</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eYFmAAAAcAAJ">[5]</a>, London: Iohn Marriot, page 67:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">If thou wilt give me Davids heart; Ile voyce, / Great God, with David; and make Davids choyce.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1666, Robert South, <cite>A ſermon preached at Lambeth-Chappel on the 25th of November […] </cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.12024/A60948">[6]</a>, London: William Nott:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">It is not the gift of every Perſon, nor of every Age, to harangue the multitude, to Voice it high and loud, & Dominari in Concionibus.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1682, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Southerne" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Southerne">Thomas Southern</a>, <cite>The Loyal Brother, Or The Perſian Prince</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-FiAAAAcAAJ">[7]</a>, London: William Cademan, page 29:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">How wou'd they voice it o're and o're for Tachmas / To come, and blunt the edge of War agen!</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1868, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson" class="extiw" title="w:Alfred, Lord Tennyson">Alfred Tennyson</a>, “Lucretius”, in <cite>The Holy Grail and Other Poems</cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Strahan" class="extiw" title="w:Andrew Strahan">Strahan and Co.</a>, […], published 1870, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/276857706">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/otherpoholygrail00tennrich/page/211/mode/1up">page 211</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive" title="Appendix:Glossary">transitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>, <a href="/wiki/IRC" title="IRC">IRC</a>) To assign the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">voice</a> flag to a <a href="/wiki/user" title="user">user</a> on <a href="/wiki/IRC" title="IRC">IRC</a>, permitting them to send messages to the <a href="/wiki/channel" title="channel">channel</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2001 November 22, Thom Peppard, “assistance please”, in <cite><kbd>alt.irc</kbd></cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.irc/ZLvEPwqNw_g/O_igEDaLjwQJ">[8]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet" class="extiw" title="w:Usenet">Usenet</a>), message-ID <B8225C66.240B%thompeppard@tru.eastlink.ca>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2004 August 1, Remco Rijnders, “moderating an IRC session”, in <cite><kbd>alt.irc</kbd></cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.irc/kwgrGbvJY6I/U8IJ6PJCZqgJ">[9]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet" class="extiw" title="w:Usenet">Usenet</a>), message-ID <opsb1625xn32ljov@news.xs4all.nl>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">If you then want others to be able to talk, you can voice them (+v) or if you want everyone able to talk, you can remove the moderation flag on the channel (-m).</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/television" title="television">television</a>, <a href="/wiki/film#Noun" title="film">film</a>) To act as a <a href="/wiki/voice_actor" title="voice actor">voice actor</a> to <a href="/wiki/portray" title="portray">portray</a> a character. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in <cite>The Onion AV Club</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-pirates-band-of-misfits,73064/">[10]</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Related terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="3"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/vocable#English" title="vocable">vocable</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/vocabulary#English" title="vocabulary">vocabulary</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/vocal#English" title="vocal">vocal</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/vocalization#English" title="vocalization">vocalization</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/vocalize#English" title="vocalize">vocalize</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/vocation#English" title="vocation">vocation</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations_2">Translations</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align: left;">See <a href="/wiki/voice/translations#Verb" title="voice/translations">voice/translations § Verb</a>.</div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1"> ^ </a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_(lexicographer)" class="extiw" title="w:James Murray (lexicographer)">James A. 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Murray</a> et al., editors (1884–1928), “Voice, v.”, in <cite>A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles</cite> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a>), volume X, Part 2 (V–Z), London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Oxford University Press">Clarendon Press</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/15566697">→OCLC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oedxbarch/page/n300/mode/1up">page 283</a>, column 3. </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=voice&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Anagrams">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/covie#English" title="covie">covie</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_English">Middle 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data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Norwegian" lang="no" hreflang="no" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Norsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sg mw-list-item"><a href="https://sg.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Sango" lang="sg" hreflang="sg" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Sängö" data-language-local-name="Sango" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sängö</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tagalog</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice" title="voice – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="voice" data-language-autonym="Українська" 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