phonography

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/fəʊˈnɒɡrəfɪ/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(fō nog′rə fē)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
pho•nog•ra•phy  (fō nog′rə fē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -phies for 2.
  1. Linguistics, Phoneticsphonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand.
  2. Linguistics, Phoneticsa system of phonetic shorthand, as that invented by Sir Isaac Pitman in 1837.
  • phono- + -graphy 1695–1705
pho•nog′ra•pher, pho•nog′ra•phist, n. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
phonography / fəʊˈnɒɡrəfɪ/
  1. a writing system that represents sounds by individual symbols
  2. the employment of such a writing system
'phonography' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
phonographic - phonotypy

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