"ecphoneme" meaning in All languages combined

See ecphoneme on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ecphonemes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ecphoneme (plural ecphonemes)
  1. (obsolete) An exclamation mark. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Punctuation marks Synonyms: bang [slang], exclamation mark, exclamation point
    Sense id: en-ecphoneme-en-noun-HmRPnEl5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Related terms: eroteme, apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

Inflected forms

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