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Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
  2. a. Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation.
  3. adj. of or relating to speech sounds
  4. adj. of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds
  5. 1. Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use. 2. Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. Phonetic spelling, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.
  6. j:100 a. of or relating to speech sounds a. of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds