Syllable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong, or syllabic consonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants.
  • n. One or more letters or phonetic symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable.
  • n. The slightest bit of spoken or written expression: Do not alter a syllable of this message.
  • v. To pronounce in syllables.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.
  • n. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
  • v. To utter in syllables.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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 reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.
  • 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. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
  • v. To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The smallest separately articulated element in human utterance; a vowel, alone, or accompanied by one or more consonants, and separated by these or by a pause from a preceding or following vowel; one of the successive parts or joints into which articulated speech is divided, being either a whole word, composed of a single vowel (whether simple or compound) with accompanying consonants, or a part of a word containing such a vowel, separated from a preceding or following vowel either by a hiatus (that is, an instant of silence) or, much more usually, by an intervening consonant, or more than one.
  • n. In music, one of the arbitrary combinations of consonants and vowels used in solmization.
  • n. The least expression of language or thought; a particle.
  • To divide into syllables.
  • To pronounce syllable by syllable; articulate; utter.
  • To speak.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
    • Verb Form
    syllabled    syllables    syllabling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    language unit    linguistic unit   
    Cross Reference
    guidonian syllables    aretinian   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    particle    utter    articulate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    billable   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    vowel    accent    sentence    phrase    verse   
     
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