(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:16:48

Mon"oph*thong (?), n. [Gr. with one sound; alone + sound, voice.]

1.

A single uncompounded vowel sound.

2.

A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.

 

© Webster 1913.

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