syllable

Word Type

n.

syllable Meaning Definition

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.

Synonyms for syllable

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Synonym Search Links for syllable

Spenserian stanzaallophonealveolarantistropheantonymapico-alveolarapico-dentalarticulationaspirationassimilationatombilabialbitbookburdencacuminalcantocerebralcheckchorusconsonantcontinuantcoupletcrumbdentaldiphthongdissimilationdistichenvoiepenthetic vowelepodeexplosiveexpressionfree formglideglottalglottalizationgutturalheptastichhexastichhomographhomonymhomophonejotlabiallabializationlabiodentallabiovelarlaryngeallaterallexemelinelinguallinguistic formliquidlocutionlogoslotamanner of articulationmeasuremetonymminimum free formmodicummodificationmonophthongmonostichmonosyllablemorphophonememutenasalocclusiveoctastichoctaveoctetorthographizeottava rimaounceoutspellpalatalparasitic vowelpeakpentastichpharyngealpharyngealizationphonephonemeplosivepolysyllableprothetic vowelquatrainrefrainretroflexrhyme royalsegmental phonemesemivowelseptetsestetsextetshredsonantsonorityspeech soundspellspell backwardspell outstanzastavestopstrainstrophesurdsyllabic nucleussyllabic peaksyllabizesynonymtercettermterza rimatetrastichtrace outtransition soundtriphthongtriplettristichusageutterancevelarverbalismverbumversevocablevocalicvocoidvoicevoiced soundvoiceless soundvoicingvowelwhitwordwrite out