English noun: speech sound | |||
1. | speech sound (communication) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | ||
Synonyms | phone, sound | ||
Broader (hypernym) | language unit, linguistic unit | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | consonant, glide, orinasal, orinasal phone, phoneme, semivowel, sonant, voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound | ||
Part meronym | utterance, vocalization | ||
Domain category | phonetics | ||