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Definition of Monophthongs
1. monophthong [n] - See also: monophthong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monophthongs
Literary usage of Monophthongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Voice Culture and Elocution. by William T. Ross (1890)
"Long monophthongs, in which each has the same sound from its commencement to its
close ; 2. Diphthongs, or Double Vowels, formed, as the name indicates, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"In such words as bread, field, the vowels, which are now monophthongs, were at
one time real diphthongs, and are still so pronounced in many parts of ..."
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