Usually means: Unstressed central vowel in phonetics.
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  1. shwa: Merriam-Webster
  2. shwa: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shwa: Vocabulary.com
  4. shwa: Wiktionary
  5. shwa: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. shwa: Dictionary.com
  7. Shwa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. shwa: Rhymezone
  9. shwa: FreeDictionary.org
  10. shwa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. shwa: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. SHWA: Acronym Finder

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  1. The Shwa, shwa, shwa: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shwa)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of schwa [(phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.]

Similar:
schwa, W.A., alef, Zulu, ch'ih, Songhay, Swiss-German, akanje, hangul, Swedland, more...

Opposite:
accented, stressed, emphasized, non-schwvowel

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Similar:
schwa, W.A., alef, Zulu, ch'ih, Songhay, Swiss-German, akanje, hangul, Swedland, more...

Opposite:
accented, stressed, emphasized, non-schwvowel



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