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noun
1.
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: “Man,” “eye,” “strength,” and “sixths” are English words of one syllable.
2.
one or more written letters or characters representing more or less exactly such an element of speech.
3.
the slightest portion or amount of speech or writing; the least mention: Do not breathe a syllable of all this.
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verb (used without object)
6.
to utter syllables; speak.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English sillable < Anglo-French; Middle French sillabe < Latin syllaba < Greek syllabḗ, equivalent to syl- syl- + lab- (base of lambánein to take) + -ē noun suffix
1350–1400; Middle English sillable < Anglo-French; Middle French sillabe < Latin syllaba < Greek syllabḗ, equivalent to syl- syl- + lab- (base of lambánein to take) + -ē noun suffix
Related forms
half-syl·la·bled, adjective
un·syl·la·bled, adjective
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Example Sentences
- There is no authority or accenting the second syllable.
- People are becoming more illiterate by avoiding character consuming real words and even more than one syllable.
- It was a typical line from a president who likes words of one syllable.
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World English Dictionary
| syllable (ˈsɪləbəl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | open See also closed a combination or set of one or more units of sound in a language that must consist of a sonorous element (a sonant or vowel) and may or may not contain less sonorous elements (consonants or semivowels) flanking it on either or both sides: for example "paper" has two syllables |
| 2. | (in the writing systems of certain languages, esp ancient ones) a symbol or set of symbols standing for a syllable |
| 3. | the least mention in speech or print: don't breathe a syllable of it |
| 4. | in words of one syllable simply; bluntly |
| —vb | |
| 5. | to pronounce syllables of (a text); articulate |
| 6. | (tr) to write down in syllables |
| [C14: via Old French from Latin syllaba, from Greek sullabē, from sullambanein to collect together, from sul- | |
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Word Origin & History
syllable
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. sillable, from O.Fr. sillabe, from L. syllaba, from Gk. syllabe "a syllable, several sounds or letters taken together," lit. "a taking together," from syn- "together" + stem of lambanein "to take" (see analemma). The extra -l- was added by analogy
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The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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