phonogram
Americannoun
noun
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any written symbol standing for a sound, syllable, morpheme, or word
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a sequence of written symbols having the same sound in a variety of different words, for example, ough in bought, ought, and brought
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of phonogram
Vocabulary lists containing phonogram
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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Example Sentences
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The musical accompaniment is provided by a recorded phonogram synthesizer.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Some ten years after the late Thomas Alva Edison first recorded the human voice* on tinfoil in 1877, he sent the foregoing jingly "phonogram," on a wax cylinder, to Colonel George E. Gouraud in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
The telephone may yet be adapted to work in conjunction with it, so that a phonogram can be telephoned, or a telephone message recorded in the phonograph.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
A representative of the phones married into the gram family, and we have phonogram.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
Speaking was represented by a phonogram containing a dialogue between Mr. Edison and Colonel Gouraud which had been imprinted some three weeks before in America.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro
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