Phonogram
[fәunәgræm]
Definition
(noun.) any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word.
Edited by Leah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
(n.) A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
Typist: Osborn
Examples
- Characters so used are called _phonograms_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They got very soon to the Chinese pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms, and beyond them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A box at a theatre needs yet another determinative, and so we go on, through a long series of phonograms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One may perhaps make this development of pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms a little clearer by taking an analogous case in English. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Emile