phoneme

English Thesaurus

1. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	phone, sound, speech sound,
definition	:	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	allophone,
definition	:	(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme (noun.communication)

domain category	:	linguistics,
definition	:	the scientific study of language (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	phonemic,
definition	:	of or relating to phonemes of a particular language (adj.pert)

derivation	:	phonemic,
definition	:	of or relating to phonemes of a particular language (adj.pert)