Monophthong

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  • noun. A single vowel articulated without change in quality throughout the course of a syllable, as the vowel of English bed.
  • noun. Two written vowels representing a single sound, as oa in boat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A simple vowel-sound.
  • noun. A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A single uncompounded vowel sound.
  • noun. A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /aɪ/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /aɪə/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre").
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    digraph