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phoneme (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: phoneme, from Greek phonema 'speech sound']
the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word, such as the 'b' and the 'p' in 'big' and 'pig'
-- phonemic /fE5ni:mIk/ adj
-- phonemically /-kli/ adv