Definition of Earcon

1. Noun. A brief, structured, abstract sound pattern used to represent a specific item or event. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Earcon

1. an audible marker in a computer display [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Earcon

earaches
earake
earal
earbash
earbashed
earbashes
earbob
earbobs
earbone
earbones
earbud
earbuds
earcap
earcaps
earcockle
earcon (current term)
earcons
earcup
earcups
eard
earded
earding
eardrop
eardrops
eardrum
eardrums
eards
eare
eared
eared grebe

Literary usage of Earcon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1899)
"Now seeing that palatal umlaut is, with the exception of the few examples of earcon- mentioned above, already complete in these texts, we should naturally ..."

2. Studies in Old English by Hector Munro Chadwick (1899)
"Now seeing that palatal umlaut is, with the exception of the few examples of earcon- mentioned above, already complete in these texts, we should naturally ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"... who sent him to Lindisfarne, and later to her cousin earcon- bert, king of Kent, in order that he might help him to carry out his wish to visit Rome ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... was the daughter of Anna, King of the East Angles, and was married about 640 to earcon- bert, King of Kent. She lived with her husband for twenty-four ..."

5. England Before the Norman Conquest: Being a History of the Celtic, Roman and by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1910)
"Only a few months after its end a great pestilence swept over the island, in which died both Archbishop Deusdedit, the first native primate, and earcon- ..."

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