The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
Used in a Sentence
syllable
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for syllable.
Editorial note
When you were a child you started out learning simple one syllable words, and speaking one word sentences.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of syllable gathered in one view.
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
(transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for syllable.
noun
The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
noun
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
verb
(transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.
noun
(linguistics) A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
Example sentences
When you were a child you started out learning simple one syllable words, and speaking one word sentences.
But this would involve adding at least one syllable to every phrase which involved a selbri, and probably more.
None of what you just said is correct, not a syllable of it, really.
I bet they really can't find a 2-syllable word that doesn't false positive all over the place.
The whole talk is expressed in terms of words of one syllable.
Blessing and damnation: the stressed syllable is always encoded in the word.
So we had to throw in a syllable to make up for the word that's being used everywhere else having been hijacked.
No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god.
Trivia: In the video he pronounces the first syllable of his first name as lie; Wikepedia has an audio file [1] in which someone pronounces it as lee.
There are single-syllable cmavo for doing exactly this!
The second syllable is stressed for commodify.
But people don't remember that 7-syllable trademark.
Quote examples
We should have a single syllable for making a number negative, even “minus” isn’t a good word, especially since it’s overloaded to also mean subtraction, and we should have a single-syllable word for rotating a vector through a right angle.
By analogy to the verb suffixes -s and -ed (and the clitic genitive particle 's), we can see that voiced "is" /ɪz/ would contract to [əz] (still a full syllable), not [s], when following "house".
This quote is a great example of how to help friends and family with tech issues w/o pissing them off in the process: I've banished from my vocabulary in dealing with users the question: "what did you expect to happen?" (intoned inquisitively with stress on the word happen, not sarcastically with stress on the last syllable of expect).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use syllable in a sentence?
When you were a child you started out learning simple one syllable words, and speaking one word sentences.
What does syllable mean?
The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
What part of speech is syllable?
syllable is commonly used as noun, verb.