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Noun consonant has 2 senses
consonant - a speech sound that is not a vowel--1 is a kind of phone, speech sound, sound
 Antonyms:  vowel, vowel sound
 --1 has particulars:
 |  | alveolar consonant, dental consonant, alveolar; stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive; aspirate; labial consonant, labial; continuant consonant, continuant; sibilant, sibilant consonant; affricate, affricate consonant, affricative; geminate; surd, voiceless consonant; guttural, guttural consonant | 
consonant - a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant--2 is a kind of letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
 
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