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polyphone

noun

Etymology

From poly- + phone.

  1. derived from φωνή — “sound”
  2. prefixed as polyphone — “poly + phone”

Definitions

  1. A letter, or combination of letters, that can be pronounced in two or more different ways

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polyphone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA