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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A copulative or coordinative type of compound in which members, if not compounded, would be in the same case and connected by the conjunction and. Common in languages such as Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese, but less so in English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, lexicography, linguistics, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Sanskrit द्वंद्व (dvaṃdvá).
