Phrase guide
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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
Any of a range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: unit of language
Antonyms: none provided
noun
one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: language unit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: part, portion, component part, component, constituent
Narrower terms: discourse, word, syllable, lexeme, morpheme, formative, name, collocation, phone, speech sound, sound, sign
History
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Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
