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soundlore

/ˈsaʊnd.lɔː/US/ˈsaʊnd.lɔɹ/

soundlore noun: information or knowledge about sounds.

Noun

soundlore (uncountable)

  1. Information or knowledge about sounds.
    • When a young brave in training could distinguish between these sounds he was well on the road to know what made them, but there was still an enormous amount of sound-lore to be learned.2013, Allan and Paulette Macfarlan, Handbook of American Indian Games
    • Back in the days before grammar split off from grimoire, when magic was taught alongside poetry, and rhetoric was an application of philosophy, Priest/esses and bards passed along to their initiates the correspondences between their languages' particles of sound and the parts and patterns of the...2008, Dixie Deerman, Steve Rasmussen, The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems
  2. (dated) The study of sounds; phonology.
    • The present opportunity has been used to enlarge and improve several departments of the Grammar, especially those of Soundlore and Derivation, and to bring out somewhat more prominently than before the leading facts of Comparative Philology, […]1875, Notes on Books, Longmans, Green and co
    • Since this volume contains a careful analysis and complete survey of what has been hitherto written on soundlore, the author would deserve the gratitude of all learners if his work were to be looked upon […]1893, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

Forms of soundlore

alternative formsound-lore

Origin of soundlore

From sound + lore. Perhaps calqued from German Lautlehre (“phonology”, literally “sound-lore”).

Questions about soundlore

What does soundlore mean?
Soundlore means information or knowledge about sounds.
What part of speech is soundlore?
Soundlore is a noun.
How do you pronounce soundlore?
Soundlore is pronounced /ˈsaʊnd.lɔː/ (UK).

Words near soundlore in the dictionary

  1. soundings
  2. soundless
  3. soundlessly
  4. soundlessness
  5. soundlike
  6. soundlore
  7. soundly
  8. soundman
  9. soundmen
  10. soundness
  11. soundnesses

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