Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

schwa

Pronunciation: /ʃwɑː/

Definition of schwa

noun

Phonetics
  • the unstressed central vowel (as in a moment ago), represented by the symbol /ə/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Origin:

late 19th century: from German, from Hebrew šěwā'

schwa in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of schwa in the US English dictionary