-phone
1-phone
noun combining formDefinition of -PHONE
1
: sound <homophone> —often in names of musical instruments and sound-transmitting devices <radiophone> <xylophone>
2
: speaker of (a specified language) <Francophone>
Origin of -PHONE
Greek -phōnos sounding, from phōnē
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