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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


Synonymsphone, sound


Broader (hypernym)language unit, linguistic unit


Narrower (hyponym)consonant, glide, orinasal, orinasal phone, phoneme, semivowel, sonant, voiced sound, vowel, vowel sound


Part meronymutterance, vocalization


Domain categoryphonetics









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