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Grapheme

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Noun

1. character, grapheme, graphic symbol

a written symbol that is used to represent speech

Example Sentences:
'the Greek alphabet has 24 characters'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Grapheme

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noun
linguistics
one of a set of orthographic symbols (letters or combinations of letters) in a given language that serve to distinguish one word from another and usually correspond to or represent phonemes, e.g. the f in fun, the ph in phantom, and the gh in laugh

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Grapheme

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noun
Linguistics
a class consisting of all the allographs representing a given unit of a writing system, or all those representing a given phoneme

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Grapheme

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n.
1. A letter of an alphabet.
2. All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme /f/.

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