Definitions
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- noun phonetics A
sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language
Etymologies
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xeno-, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, "foreign, of a stranger") + -phone φωνή (phone, "sound")
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