Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vocable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vocable \Vo"ca*ble\, n. [L. vocabulum an appellation,
designation, name, fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, a
voice, a word: cf. F. vocable. See {Voice}.]
A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as
composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its
meaning.
Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious
vocables. --Carlyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vocable
n : a word that is spoken aloud [syn: {spoken word}]
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