trigraph
trigraph is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abecedarian
- abecedary
- affix
- alphabet
- alphabetical
- anagram
- anagrammatism
- character
- christcross-row
- cipher
- consonant
- dental
- digraph
- diphthong
- dissyllable
- guttural
- hieroglyphic
- ideogram
- ideograph
- labial
- letter
- liquid
- literal
- majuscule
- metagrammatism
- minuscule
- monogram
- monosyllable
- mute
- orthograph
- phonetic
- phonography
- polysyllable
- printing
- spell
- spelling
- suffix
- syllabic
- syllable
- triphthong
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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