- phone, speech sound, sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
--1 is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
--1 is a part of utterance, vocalization
--1 has particulars:phoneme; vowel, vowel sound; semivowel, glide; consonant; orinasal phone, orinasal; sonant, voiced sound