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Meaning of "tautophony" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAUTOPHONY

tautophony  [tɔːˈtɒfənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAUTOPHONY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tautophony is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TAUTOPHONY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tautophony in the English dictionary

The definition of tautophony in the dictionary is the repetition of a sound.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAUTOPHONY


acrophony
əˈkrɒfənɪ
ambiophony
ˌæmbɪˈɒfənɪ
angelophany
ˌeɪndʒəˈlɒfənɪ
apophony
əˈpɒfənɪ
autophony
ɔːˈtɒfənɪ
cacophony
kəˈkɒfənɪ
Christophany
krɪsˈtɒfənɪ
colophony
kɒˈlɒfənɪ
gramophony
ɡræˈmɒfənɪ
heterophony
ˌhɛtəˈrɒfənɪ
homophony
hɒˈmɒfənɪ
monophony
mɒˈnɒfənɪ
photophony
fəˈtɒfənɪ
quadraphony
kwɒdˈrɒfənɪ
quadrophony
kwɒdˈrɒfənɪ
radiophony
ˌreɪdɪˈɒfənɪ
satanophany
ˌseɪtənˈɒfənɪ
stereophony
ˌsterɪˈɒfənɪ
theophany
θɪˈɒfənɪ
Zoffany
ˈzɒfənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAUTOPHONY

tautologies
tautologise
tautologism
tautologist
tautologize
tautologous
tautologously
tautology
tautomer
tautomeric
tautomerism
tautometric
tautometrical
tautonym
tautonymic
tautonymous
tautonymy
tautophonic
tautophonical
tav

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAUTOPHONY

Anthony
antiphony
aphony
autochthony
ciphony
diaphony
dodecaphony
euphony
laryngophony
phony
polyphony
radiotelephony
symphony
telephony
wireless telephony

Synonyms and antonyms of tautophony in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tautophony» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAUTOPHONY

Find out the translation of tautophony to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tautophony from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tautophony» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tautophony
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tautophony
570 millions of speakers

English

tautophony
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tautophony
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tautophony
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tautophony
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tautophony
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tautophony
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tautophony
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tautophony
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tautophony
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tautophony
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tautophony
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tautophony
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tautophony
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரே ஒலி மீண்டும் ஒலித்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टाटॉफनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tautophony
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tautophony
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tautophony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tautophony
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tautophony
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tautophony
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tautophony
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tautophony
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tautophony
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tautophony

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTOPHONY»

The term «tautophony» is normally little used and occupies the 138.590 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTOPHONY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tautophony

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAUTOPHONY»

Discover the use of tautophony in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tautophony and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Science of Rhetoric: an Introduction to the Laws of ...
Variety in the use of words and syllables is violated : (1) by the recurrence of the same sound, — Tautophony ; and (2) by the recurrence of the accent at regular intervals, — Meter. 1. Tautophony. (1) Offensive Tautophony. — The unpleasant ...
David Jayne Hill, 1883
2
The Inland Printer
One of its elements necessitates its application to speech or writing, and the corresponding element in " tautophony " means sound only. We might classify a mere faulty repetition of sound, as of a recurring syllable, as tautophony ; but any  ...
‎1900
3
The Inland and American Printer and Lithographer
One of its elements necessitates its application to speech or writing, and the corresponding element in "tautophony" means sound only. We might classify a mere faulty repetition of sound, as of a recurring syllable, as tautophony ; but any  ...
‎1900
4
A New Universal Etymological, Technological, and Pronouncing ...
(from Tautophony.) Repeating the same sound. TAUTOPHONY, taw-tof'o-ne, s. ( tautos, the same, and phone, sound, Gr.) Repetition of the same sound. TAVELLE, tav'el-le, s. In Roman Architecture, a kind of bricks, which were seven inches ...
‎1858
5
A System of Rhetoric: By C. W. Bardeen
Tautophony, or the repetition of the same sound, is usually a defect in composition, but is sometimes employed with happy effect to produce a peculiar emphasis. Thus Epictetus says that all philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Charles William Bardeen, 1884
6
A Shorter Course of Oral Instruction in Grammar: Arranged in ...
Tautology is frequently used for the word tautophony. Tautology means repeating the same thought; tautophony means repeating the same sound. Than whom is often used for than who; as, Shakspeare, than whom no greater poet lived, i. e., ...
Heald's business college, San Francisco, 1883
7
Practical Rhetoric
This fault is known as tautophony, and is perceptible in words like holily ; in combinations like brief fashion, " He went on in an unen- durable strain," " It is only comparative/)' recent/)/ that it was apprehended ; " and in members of sentences ...
John Duncan Quackenbos, 1896
8
The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the ...
You shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny." — Shakespeare. Tautology. Among the things to be avoided in writing is tautology, which is the repeating of the same thought, whether in the same or in different words. Tautophony.
Alfred Ayres, 1909
9
The Dean's English: a criticism on the Dean of Canterbury's ...
tautology and tautophony, and the list will, I think, be tolerably complete. Tautology As you have introduced into your and tautophony- essays the short preface to your Poems, that preface becomes fairly amenable to criticism, and I remark that ...
George Washington Moon, 1871
10
Glossary of Hindi/Urdu and English linguistic terminology : ...
Dhvanidvirukti tautophony (BT 1963: 803). Dhvanigat (E^PPRT): phonetic (McG 1999: 536). Dhvanigraf (E^ftWR): phonogram ( BT 1963: 790). Dlivanigram (S- qiVjlH): [adjl] isophonemic (BT 1963: 286), phoneme (BT 1963: 82, 284, 789; AS  ...
Umberto Nardella, 2008

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tautophony [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tautophony>. May 2024 ».
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