syllab, syllabe (obsolete) From Middle English <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span>, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin...
closed <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> (plural closed <span class="searchmatch">syllables</span>) (linguistics) A <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> that ends in a consonant. Synonym: checked <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> Antonym: open <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> Translations...
<span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> (plural open <span class="searchmatch">syllables</span>) (linguistics) A <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> that has no coda after its nucleus, and which hence ends in a vowel. Synonym: free <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span>...
IPA(key): /ˈsɪləbl̩z/ Hyphenation: sy‧lla‧bles <span class="searchmatch">syllables</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> <span class="searchmatch">syllables</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span>...
Wikipedia has an article on: <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> weight Wikipedia <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> weight (plural <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> weights) (phonology) Property of <span class="searchmatch">syllables</span> related to quantity....
<span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> weights plural of <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> weight...
<span class="searchmatch">syllable</span>-timed (not comparable) (linguistics, phonetics) Of a language, such that every spoken <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> takes up more or less the same amount of time...
<span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> timing (uncountable) (linguistics, phonetics) A type of isochrony in a language in which the duration of each <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> is roughly equivalent...
<span class="searchmatch">syllabled</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span> <span class="searchmatch">syllabled</span> (not comparable) Having a specified number of <span class="searchmatch">syllables</span>. ten-<span class="searchmatch">syllabled</span> poetic couplets...
<span class="searchmatch">syllabling</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">syllable</span>...