noun. undefined

noun. A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong, or syllabic consonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants.

noun. One or more letters or phonetic symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable.

noun. The slightest bit of spoken or written expression.

transitive verb. To pronounce in syllables.

noun. The smallest separately articulated element in human utterance; a vowel, alone, or accompanied by one or more consonants, and separated by these or by a pause from a preceding or following vowel; one of the successive parts or joints into which articulated speech is divided, being either a whole word, composed of a single vowel (whether simple or compound) with accompanying consonants, or a part of a word containing such a vowel, separated from a preceding or following vowel either by a hiatus (that is, an instant of silence) or, much more usually, by an intervening consonant, or more than one.

noun. In music, one of the arbitrary combinations of consonants and vowels used in solmization.

noun. The least expression of language or thought; a particle.

To divide into syllables.

To pronounce syllable by syllable; articulate; utter.

To speak.

transitive verb. To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

noun. 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 reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, §275.

noun. 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.

noun. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

noun. 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.

noun. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.

verb. To utter in syllables.

noun. a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme

"Next, (in order to sustain his anti-_th_ theory,) he says, (Vol.III. p. 227,) that "the last syllable of 'murder,' then written _mur_th_er_, _seems to have been pronounced somewhat like the same syllable_ of the French _meurtre_.""

aretinian  guidonian syllables  

monosyllable  polysyllable  syllabary  syllabic  syllabification  

language unit  linguistic unit  

antepenult  antepenultima  antepenultimate  penult  penultima  

billable  

accent  cadence  chord  clause  consonant  

Spenserian stanza  allophone  alveolar  antistrophe  antonym  

syllabled  syllables  syllabling