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Phonogram

Pho′no-gram

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Noun.
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Phono-
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-gram
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1.
A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
Phonograms
are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved.
I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
2.
A record of sounds made by a phonograph.

Definition 2024


phonogram

phonogram

English

Noun

phonogram (plural phonograms)

  1. (linguistics) A group of letters which share the same letter combination associated with a sound, such as rhyming words.
  2. (law) An audio recording.

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