ALLOPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allophone mean? 

• ALLOPHONE (noun)
  The noun ALLOPHONE has 1 sense:

1. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

  Familiarity information: ALLOPHONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLOPHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("allophone" is a kind of...):

phoneme ((linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Derivation:

allophonic (pertaining to allophones)