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Word: Phoneme
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: from French phonème, from Greek phōnēma ‘sound, speech’, from phōnein ‘speak’
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Phonetic Spelling:
ˈfəʊniːm
Dialects: British English
Definition:
any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat.
Short Definition:any of distinct units of sound in language
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