1. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme 
2. [Cdn] An immigrant to Québec whose first language is neither English or French

Derived forms: allophones

See also: allophonic

Type of: phoneme

Encyclopedia: Allophone

• mite box
• Mitella
• Mitella diphylla
• Mitella pentandra
• miter
• miter box
• miter joint
• miter mushroom
• miterwort
• Mitford
• mithan
• mither
• Mithra
• Mithracin
• mithraic
• Mithraicism
• Mithraism
• Mithraist
• mithraistic
• mithramycin
• Mithras
• mithridate
• mithridate mustard
• Mithridates
• Mithridates the Great