toneme

ton·eme

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Definitions of toneme word

noun toneme a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language: Swedish has two tonemes. 1
noun toneme a phoneme that is distinguished from another phoneme only by its tone 0

before 1920

One of the 12% newest English words

First recorded in 1920-25; tone + -eme

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adjective

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adverb

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preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 70% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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