'Syllable' definitions:
Definition of 'syllable'
From: WordNet
noun
A unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
Definition of 'Syllable'
From: GCIDE
- Syllable \Syl"la*ble\, n. [OE. sillable, OF. sillabe, F. syllabe, L. syllaba, Gr. ? that which is held together, several letters taken together so as to form one sound, a syllable, fr. ? to take together; ? with + ? to take; cf. Skr. labh, rabh. Cf. Lemma, Dilemma.]
- 1. 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, [sect]275. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle. [1913 Webster]
- Before any syllable of the law of God was written. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Who dare speak One syllable against him? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Syllable'
From: GCIDE
- Syllable \Syl"la*ble\, v. t. To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'syllable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- antistrophe,
- antonym,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- atom,
- bilabial,
- bit,
- book,
- burden,
- cacuminal,
- canto,
- cerebral,
- check,
- chorus,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- couplet,
- crumb,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- distich,
- envoi,
- epenthetic vowel,
- epode,
- explosive,
- expression,
- free form,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- heptastich,
- hexastich,
- homograph,
- homonym,
- homophone,
- jot,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lexeme,
- line,
- lingual,
- linguistic form,
- liquid,
- locution,
- logos,
- lota,
- manner of articulation,
- measure,
- metonym,
- minimum free form,
- modicum,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monostich,
- monosyllable,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- octastich,
- octave,
- octet,
- orthographize,
- ottava rima,
- ounce,
- outspell,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pentastich,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plosive,
- polysyllable,
- prothetic vowel,
- quatrain,
- refrain,
- retroflex,
- rhyme royal,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- septet,
- sestet,
- sextet,
- shred,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spell,
- spell backward,
- spell out,
- Spenserian stanza,
- stanza,
- stave,
- stop,
- strain,
- strophe,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllabize,
- synonym,
- tercet,
- term,
- terza rima,
- tetrastich,
- trace out,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- triplet,
- tristich,
- usage,
- utterance,
- velar,
- verbalism,
- verbum,
- verse,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- whit,
- word,
- write out