English to English Dictionary -syllables

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Dissyllable :: Dissyllable (n.) A word of two syllables; as, pa-per..

Dodecasyllable :: Dodecasyllable (n.) A word consisting of twelve syllables.

Hendecasyllable :: Hendecasyllable (n.) A metrical line of eleven syllables.

Monosyllable :: Monosyllable (n.) A word of one syllable.

Monosyllabled :: Monosyllabled (a.) Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables..

Multisyllable :: Multisyllable (n.) A word of many syllables; a polysyllable.

Octosyllable :: Octosyllable (a.) Octosyllabic.

Octosyllable :: Octosyllable (n.) A word of eight syllables.

Polysyllable :: Polysyllable (n.) A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables..

Quadrisyllable :: Quadrisyllable (n.) A word consisting of four syllables.

Quinquesyllable :: Quinquesyllable (n.) A word of five syllables.

Septisyllable :: Septisyllable (n.) A word of seven syllables.

Sexisyllable :: Sexisyllable (n.) A word of six syllables.

Syllable :: Syllabize (v. t.) To syllabify.

Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only

Syllable :: Syllable (n.) In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language..

Syllable :: Syllable (n.) A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

Terrasyllable :: Terrasyllable (n.) A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Trisyllable :: Trisyllable (n.) A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger..