| syllable | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. syllable | a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme.; "the word `pocket' has two syllables" |
| ~ language unit, linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed. |
| ~ word | a unit of language that native speakers can identify.; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" |
| ~ ultima | the last syllable in a word. |
| ~ penult, penultima, penultimate | the next to last syllable in a word. |
| ~ antepenult, antepenultima, antepenultimate | the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end. |
| ~ reduplication | the syllable added in a reduplicated word form. |
| ~ solfa syllable | one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization. |
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