Usually means: Complex vowel sound; two parts.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word diphthong:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. diphthong: Merriam-Webster
  2. diphthong: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diphthong: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diphthong: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diphthong: Vocabulary.com
  6. diphthong: Wordnik
  7. diphthong: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diphthong: Wiktionary
  9. diphthong: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diphthong: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diphthong: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Diphthong, diphthong: Dictionary.com
  13. diphthong: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Diphthong: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Diphthong: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. diphthong: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. diphthong: Rhymezone
  18. Diphthong: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. diphthong: FreeDictionary.org
  20. diphthong: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. diphthong: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. diphthong: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. diphthong: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Diphthong: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Diphthong: Unicode Glossary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diphthong: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diphthong: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See diphthongal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
noun:  (rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.

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