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 phonogram does not wear out by use.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
The next step forward is the development of the ideogram into the phonogram, or sound sign.
From Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
In 1888 Edison sent his first phonogram by steamer to England.
From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by A. Fraser Robertson
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