HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
Home › Dictionary › English › diaphone
Back to search

diaphone

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A kind of organ pipe.
  2. A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.
  3. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

Equivalents

Françaisdiaphone
DeutschDiaphon
Italianodiafono
1 more languages
Русскийдиафо́н

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See all B2 English words →

See also

diaphoneme diaphonics diaphony diaphorase diaphoresis diaphoretic

Learn this word in context

See diaphone used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free