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1. (n.) syllable
an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a center of relatively great sonority with or without one or more accompanying sounds of relatively less sonority:
“Dog,”“eye,”“strength,” and “sixths” are English words of one syllable; “doghouse” has two syllables.
2. syllable
one or more written letters or characters representing more or less exactly such an element of speech.
3. syllable
the slightest portion or amount of speech or writing; the least mention.
4. (v.t.) syllable
to utter in syllables; articulate.
Etymology: (1350–1400; < AF; MF sillabe < L syllaba < Gk syllabē, n. der. of syllambánein to gather together =syl-+lambánein to take)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) syllable
a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
"the word `pocket' has two syllables"
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1. (noun) syllable
one of the parts a word is divided into
When you say "Hello" you stress the second syllable.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) syllable
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. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275
2. (noun) syllable
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
3. (noun) syllable
a small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle
4. (verb) syllable
to pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate
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Sense: a word or part of a word usually containing a vowel sound
`Cheese' has one syllable, `but-ter' two and `mar-ga-rine' three.
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 Afrikaans: lettergreep |
 Arabic: مَقْطَع |
 Bulgarian: сричка |
 Brazilian: sílaba |
 Czech: slabika |
 German: die Silbe |
 Danish: stavelse |
 Greek: συλλαβή |
 Spanish: sílaba |
 Estonian: silp |
 Farsi: هجا |
 Finnish: tavu |
 French: syllabe |
 Hebrew: הֲבָרָה |
 Hindi: अक्षर |
 Croatian: slog |
 Hungarian: szótag |
 Indonesian: suku kata |
 Icelandic: atkvæði |
 Italian: sillaba |
 Japanese: 音節 |
 Korean: 음절 |
 Lithuanian: skiemuo |
 Latvian: zilbe |
 Malay: suku kata` |
 Dutch: lettergreep |
 Norwegian: stavelse |
 Polish: sylaba |
 Persian: هجا |
 Pashto: هجا |
 Portuguese: sílaba |
 Romanian: silabă |
 Russian: слог |
 Slovak: slabika |
 Slovenian: zlog |
 Serbian: slog |
 Swedish: stavelse |
 Thai: พยางค์ |
 Turkish: hece |
 Taiwanese: 音節 |
 Ukrainian: слово; склад |
 Urdu: لفظ کا وہ ٹکڑا جو ایک بار |
 Vietnamese: âm tiết |
 Chinese: 音节 |
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