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Meaning of diphthongal | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

/dɪfˈθɔŋɡəl/

Definitions

Pertaining to or characterized by a diphthong.

not-comparable

Examples

“‘This,’ the colonel said […] ‘is a lampshade. It looks like an ordinary lampshade. It was taken from the bedside lamp of Frau Koch. It’s genuine human skin.’ It sounded more gruesome spoken in his diphthongal southern manner—skee-ern.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

diphthongic diphthongy diphycercal diphygenic diphyletic diphyllic