syllable

syllable - English

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Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA: /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/, [ˈsɪl.ə.bɫ̩]
  • Hyphenation: sy‧lla‧ble

Noun

syllable (plural syllables)

  1. (linguistics) 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.
  2. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
  3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

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Verb

syllable (third-person singular simple present syllables, present participle syllabling, simple past and past participle syllabled)

  1. (transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.

Translations

  • Bulgarian: произнасям на срички (proiznasjam na srički)
  • Greek: συλλαβίζω (el) (syllavízo)
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