Standard Lemma guide

phon

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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.

  • rhymes with -ɒn

1

name

Meaning 1

Initialism of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australian, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: acoustics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a unit of subjective loudness

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sound unit

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: fón — unit of apparent loudness
  • Finnish: fooni — unit of apparent loudness
  • Finnish: foni — unit of apparent loudness
  • French: phone — unit of apparent loudness
  • German: Phon — unit of apparent loudness
  • Japanese: ホン (hon) — unit of apparent loudness
  • Japanese: ホーン — unit of apparent loudness
  • Macedonian: фон (fon) — unit of apparent loudness
  • Polish: fon — unit of apparent loudness
  • Romanian: fon — unit of apparent loudness