syllable
n.
segment of speech uttered with a single impulse of air; smallest amount of speech or writing
Syllable
A syllable (
Ancient Greek: ) is a unit of organization for a sequence of
speech sounds. It is typically made up of a
syllable nucleus (most often a
vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically,
consonants).Syllables are often considered the
phonological "building blocks" of
words. They can influence the rhythm of a
language, its
prosody, its
poetic meter, its
stress patterns, etc.A word that consists of a single syllable (like
English cat) is called a monosyllable (such a word is monosyllabic), while a word consisting of two syllables (like monkey) is called a disyllable (such a word is disyllabic). A word consisting of three syllables (such as indigent) is called a trisyllable (the adjective form is trisyllabic). A word consisting of more than three syllables (such as intelligence) is called a polysyllable (and could be described as polysyllabic), although this term is often used to describe words of two syllables or more.
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syllable (de)
n.
syllable, segment of speech uttered with a single impulse of air
Syllable
(v. t.)
To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
(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.
(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 by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses.
(n.)
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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