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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A letter of an alphabet.
  • noun All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme /f/.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Linguistics) a written symbol that is used to represent speech.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A fundamental unit of a writing system corresponding to letters in the English alphabet.
  • noun In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a written symbol that is used to represent speech

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[graph + –eme.]

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From Ancient Greek γράφω (graphō, "write") + -eme.

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