Meaning & use
nasal
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Relating to the nose, or produced by air passing through the nose.
See it in a sentence
She had a distinctly nasal voice because of her head cold.
The doctor prescribed a nasal spray to relieve her congestion.
A note on using this word
In phonetics, a "nasal" is also a noun referring to sounds like /m/ and /n/, made by letting air resonate through the nose.
Another way to use it
2. noun
A speech sound produced by lowering the soft palate so air resonates through the nose.
The letters m, n, and ng represent the three nasals in English.
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