Phoneme

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in English.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as phone, n.
  • n. A voice-sound imagined by the insane; a hallucination of voices.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    phone    speech sound    sound   
    Cross Reference
    toneme    lexeme    listeme    grapheme    chroneme   
    Hyponym
    allophone   
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