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Definition of syllable

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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

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Oxytone :: Oxytone (a.) Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable..

Cacophony :: Cacophony (n.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables..

Octosyllabical :: Octosyllabical (a.) Consisting of or containing eight syllables.

#NAME? :: -grave () A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave..

Catalectic :: Catalectic (a.) Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse..

Hiatus :: Hiatus (n.) The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables.

Termination :: Termination (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

Tetrasyllabical :: Tetrasyllabical (a.) Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic..

Syllabic :: Syllabe (n.) Syllable.

Rhopalic :: Rhopalic (a.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

Foot :: Foot (n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent..

Articulate :: Articulate (v. t.) To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language..

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

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

Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly..

Alexandrine :: Alexandrine (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

Syllabication :: Syllabicate (v. t.) To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Number :: Number (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural..

Short :: Short (n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel..

La :: La (n.) A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.