Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of syllable is as below...

Female Rhymes :: Female rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line..

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

Amphibrach :: Amphibrach (n.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic..

Coronis :: Coronis (n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable..

Baritone :: Baritone (a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood..

Octosyllable :: Octosyllable (a.) Octosyllabic.

Perispomenon :: Perispomenon (n.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable.

Parisyllabical :: Parisyllabical (a.) Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

Trisyllabical :: Trisyllabical (a.) Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, syllable is a trisyllabic word..

Imparisyllabic :: Imparisyllabic (a.) Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis..

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

Solfeggio :: Solfeggio (n.) The system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables..

Spondulics :: Spondee (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges..

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.

Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute..

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

Syllabism :: Syllabify (v. t.) To form or divide into syllables.

Measure :: Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure..

Penult :: Penult (n.) The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

Umlaut :: Umlaut (n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed..

Random Fonts

Most Popular