| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| grapheme |
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| SYLLABICATION: | graph·eme |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  gr f  m |
| NOUN: | 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/. | | ETYMOLOGY: | graph2 + –eme. | | OTHER FORMS: | gra·phemic (gr-fm k) —ADJECTIVE
gra·phemi·cal·ly —ADVERB
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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