phoneme (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *phoneme*:
NOUN	communication	phoneme	(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

phoneme > pronunciation
Sounds	fow'niym
Rhymes	academe ... upstream: 40 rhymes with iym...

English > *phoneme*: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
Meaning	(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language.
Category	linguistics	The scientific study of language
Narrower	allophone	(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Broader	phone, speech sound, sound	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
Spanish	fonema
Catalan	fonema
Adjectives	phonemic	of or relating to phonemes of a particular language

HyperDic: phoneme