[{"word":"rhotic","phonetic":"/ˈɹəʊtɪk/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈɹəʊtɪk/","audio":""},{"text":"/ˈɹoʊtɪk/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"(of an English accent) That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Rhotic speech is common in Ireland, Scotland, much of the United States, Canada, West Country England, and many parts of the north and west of England."},{"definition":"(of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"In the IPA, a rhotic vowel (aka R-coloured vowel, retroflex vowel, vocalic r or rhotacised vowel) is indicated by the affixing of a hook diacritic ( ˞ ) to the right of the regular symbol for the vowel. The rhotic consonants are /r/,  /ɾ/, /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ʀ/, /ʁ/, /ɽ/ and /ɺ/."}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":["non-rhotic"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhotic"]}]