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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary syl·la·ble \\ˈsi-lə-bəl\\ noun ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French sillabe, silable, from Latin syllaba, from Greek syllabē, from syllambanein to gather together, from syn- + lambanein to take — more at latch DATE 14th century 1. a unit of spoken language that is next bigger than a speech sound and consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or of a syllabic consonant alone or of either with one or more consonant sounds preceding or following2. one or more letters (as syl, la, and ble) in a word (as syl·la·ble) usually set off from the rest of the word by a centered dot or a hyphen and roughly corresponding to the syllables of spoken language and treated as helps to pronunciation or as guides to placing hyphens at the end of a line3. the smallest conceivable expression or unit of something : jot 4. sol-fa syllables transitive verb
( syl·la·bled ; syl·la·bling \\-b(ə-)liŋ\\)
DATE 15th century 1. to give a number or arrangement of syllables to (a word or verse)2. to express or utter in or as if in syllables 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 with participle and principle. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 syllablesyl·lable / 5silEbl / noun any of the units into which a word is divided, containing a vowel sound and usually one or more consonants 音节:
a word with two syllables 双音节单词
a two-syllable word 双音节单词
'Potato' is stressed on the second syllable. potato 一词的重音在第二个音节上。 IDIOMS ⇨ see word n. Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishsyllable
noun ADJ. final, first, last, middle, second, third, etc. | accented, stressed, strong, tonic | unstressed, weak VERB + SYLLABLE consist of, contain, have words that have three or more syllables | pronounce | put the accent/stress on, stress Put the stress on the second syllable. | split a word into She split the word up into syllables so that he could have a go at spelling it. PHRASES stress falls/is on a syllable Normally, the stress falls on the first syllable of a word. | a word of one, two, etc. syllables You'll have to spell it out to him, using words of one syllable (= explain it in simple language). Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged syl·la·bleI. \ˈsiləbəl\ noun
( -s) Etymology: Middle English sillable, from Middle French sillabe, from Latin syllaba, from Greek syllabē, from syllambanein to gather together, put together, combine in pronunciation, from syn- + lambanein to take, grasp — more at latch 1. : a unit of spoken language that is next bigger than a speech sound and consists of one or more vowel sounds alone (as \ī\ and \ə\ in \īleftindēə\ I left India) or of a syllabic consonant alone (as \ ən\ in \wīd ən\ widen) or of either accompanied by one or more consonant sounds preceding or following (as \stāt\ in \stātmənt\ statement or \ ənd\ in \wīd ənd\ widened2. : one or more letters (as syl, la, and ble) in a word (as syl.la.ble) usually set off from the rest of the word by a centered dot or a hyphen and roughly but often not exactly corresponding to the syllables of spoken language and treated as helps to the ascertainment of pronunciation or as markers of places where a word may be hyphenated at the end of a written or printed line 3. : a monosyllabic word considered with reference to its meaning
< those awful syllables, hell, death, and sin — William Cowper >4. : the smallest conceivable expression or unit of something : jot
< kept a diary for years, but never entered in it a syllable that had to do with his official life — H.G.Dwight >
< towns of gold can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit — R.W.Emerson >
< as if the past had resolved itself into this tiny esoteric pattern and that I could grasp it in an instant of time, and interpret its every single syllable as briefly — Walter de la Mare >5.
a. : syllable name
b. : sol-fa syllables
< to sing by syllable >II. transitive verb
( syllabled ; syllabled ; syllabling \-b(ə)liŋ\ ; syllables) 1. : to give a number or arrangement of syllables to (a word or verse)
< some uncouth poet scarcely able to syllable his words — Virginia Woolf >
< long unbroken sentences … filled with polysyllabled abstract nouns — Times Literary Supplement >2. : to express or utter in or as if in syllables
< tongues that syllable men's names — John Milton >
< where the birds talked with words too sad and strange to syllable — J.C.Ransom >
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