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Noun: close vowel
  1. A vowel sound made with your tongue near the top of your mouth.
    "The vowel in seat is a close vowel and that in sat a fairly open vowel.";
    - high vowel

Type of: vowel, vowel sound

Encyclopedia: Close vowel

Nearest

close out
close quarters
close set
close shave
close support
close supporting fire
close to
close to the wind
close together
close up
close vowel
close-cropped
closed
closed book
closed caption
closed chain
closed circuit
closed corporation
closed couplet
closed curve
closed fracture