mon·oph·thong (m n  f-thông , -thng)n. 1. A single vowel articulated without change in quality throughout the course of a syllable, as the vowel of English bed. 2. Two written vowels representing a single sound, as oa in boat. [Late Greek monophthongos : Greek mono-, mono- + Greek phthongos, sound.] mon oph·thongal (-thônggl, -thng-) adj. |
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