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A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.

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  1. n. A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
  2. n. A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
  3. n. any word/written">written word/symbol">symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word
  4. 1. A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound. Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). 2. A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
  5. n. any word/written">written word/symbol">symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word