Other forms: voices
Your voice is the sound you make when you speak or sing. A deep voice, lose your voice, raise your voice.
It is produced by air passing the vocal folds, and losing your voice is those folds being swollen. Figuratively, a voice is the right to be heard: give people a voice, a voice in the decision. In writing, voice means an author's characteristic manner. In grammar, the active and passive voices are the two ways of arranging a sentence. Note voicemail, voiceover; and at the top of your voice.
1nounvoiceThe sound you make when you speak or sing.~98%
“She has a beautiful voice and sings in a band.”
2nounrightThe right to be heard.~2%
“The workers want a voice in decisions about their pay.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 14 sentences found in the wild and placed 14 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
voice is a sound, or a say.
Latin vocem, from vox, a voice — the same root as vocal, vocation, invoke and vowel. A vocation is literally a calling, which is the metaphor the word has carried since Latin.
Middle English
voys
English, today
voice
Built from
From Middle English voys. From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच्, Ancient Greek ὄψ, Persian آواز. Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor#Noun, Old English woþ#Noun_2, and Old English reord#Noun. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, vocal, vouch, vowel. a doublet of vox.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA