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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 contraction of two syllables into one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric, uncountable, usually
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: episynaloephe, synizesis
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Ancient Greek συνεκφώνησις (sunekphṓnēsis), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + ἐκφώνησις (ekphṓnēsis, “pronunciation”).
