OPTOPHONE

Etymology

Noun

optophone (plural optophones)

A device that transforms light into sound.

A device, used by the blind, that scans text and generates a different sound for each character

Anagrams

• topophone

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.

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