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

  • noun Any of the phonemes of a tone language by which tone conveys differences in lexical meaning.

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  • noun linguistics a phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings.

Etymologies

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tone +‎ -eme.

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