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voiceunder en · NOUN

Etymology

By analogy to voice-over.

Meanings

  1. An audio track spoken or sung in the background.
    • The commercials have a "voiceunder" reciting the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1988, Adweek: Western advertising news - Volume 38, Issues 16-30, page 85:
    • But even though English soundtracks are left intact— as sort of exotic voiceunders — the situation is dreary for the average American news junkie. 1984, Edith Terry, The executive guide to China, →ISBN, page 297:
    • Underneath, something else is moving. A stream running beneath the ice. A voiceover. Or, I guess, a voiceunder. 2017, Matthew Goodwin, Frederick Aldama, Latin@ Rising An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy, →ISBN:

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voiceunders Number=Plur lexicographic
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