1. a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy'); [syn: affricate, affricate consonant, affricative]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
affricative
n 1: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a
fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair'
and `j' in `joy') [syn: affricate, affricate consonant,
affricative]