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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024a•croph•o•ny (ə krof′ə nē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -nies. - Linguisticsthe use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the word the logogram represented, as, in Semitic writing, the use of a picture of a shepherd's crook to represent the sound (l), the first sound of lamed, the Hebrew word for a shepherd's crook.
- Linguisticsthe use of a word as the name of the alphabetical symbol representing the initial sound of that word.
Also, acrology. ac•ro•phon•ic (ak′rə fon′ik),USA pronunciation ac•ro•pho•net•ic (ak′rə fə net′ik),USA pronunciation adj. ac′ro•phon′i•cal•ly, ac′ro•pho•net′i•cal•ly, adv. |