antiphony
Is it a Scrabble word? See definition, points, and words you can make.
Is antiphony a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of antiphony?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.countableuncountable
2. (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).Examples: "Still another phase of language which interests Professor Orr is that of vowel antiphony in the functional development of language; e.g. the “front-back” vowel sequence (tittle-tattle, et patati et patata, etc.)."; "Roman Jakobson gives evidence to show how language uses ‘antiphony’ or vowel opposition in pairs of words with opposite meanings: ‘gleam’ and ‘gloom’, ‘here’ and ‘there’, or in French ‘petit’ and ‘grand’."; "The various types of reduplication […] include full reduplication (tum-tum), […] vowel antiphony (flip-flop, criss-cross) […]"Synonyms: apophonycountableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary