SOUND STRUCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sound structure mean? 

• SOUND STRUCTURE (noun)
  The noun SOUND STRUCTURE has 1 sense:

1. the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

  Familiarity information: SOUND STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUND STRUCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The admissible arrangement of sounds in words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

morphology; sound structure; syllable structure; word structure

Hypernyms ("sound structure" is a kind of...):

structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound structure"):

affixation (the result of adding an affix to a root word)