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| Main Entry: |
speech sound
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sound unit of speech |
| Synonyms: | affricate, click, consonant, diphthong, fricative, implosive, liquid, phone, phonetic entity, phonetic unit, plosive, sibilant, sonant, spirant, syllable, vocable |
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Example Sentences
- Why the president chose it remains unclear, but he enunciates each syllable with a grin.
- But it merits every clanging syllable of it, right down to the last unpleasant word.
- People are becoming more illiterate by avoiding character consuming real words and even more than one syllable.
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