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VOWEL POINT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vowel point mean?
• VOWEL POINT (noun)
The noun VOWEL POINT has 1 sense:
1. a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel
Familiarity information: VOWEL POINT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("vowel point" is a kind of...):
vowel (a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel)
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