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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

phoneme

/(fō"nē̇m)/ · pho·neme · IPA /ˈfoʊ.nim/
01 n. One of a small set of speech sounds that are used by and distinguished by the speakers of a particular language. They are combined into mo…
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    One of a small set of speech sounds that are used by and distinguished by the speakers of a particular language. They are combined into morphemes, words, and sentences.(Linguistics)