Rhotic (adj)
row-tik
Relating to or denoting a dialect or variety of English (e.g. in most of the US and south-western England) in which r is pronounced before a consonant (as in hard) and at the ends of words (as in far)
1960s: from Greek rhot-, stem of rho (see rho) + -ic.
Example sentences
“British accents are generally made up of rhotic and non-rhotic speakers.”
