SYLLABLE meaning: Unit of sound in words

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word syllable:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

syllable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
syllable: Merriam-Webster
syllable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
syllable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
syllable: Collins English Dictionary
syllable: Vocabulary.com
Syllable, syllable: Wordnik
syllable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
syllable: Wiktionary
syllable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
syllable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
syllable: Infoplease Dictionary
syllable: Dictionary.com
syllable: Online Etymology Dictionary
syllable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Syllable (computing), Syllable (disambiguation), Syllable (operating system), Syllable (software), Syllable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Syllable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
syllable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
syllable: Rhymezone
syllable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
syllable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
syllable: FreeDictionary.org
syllable: Mnemonic Dictionary
syllable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)

Syllable: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
Syllable: Lexicon of Linguistics
SYLLABLE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)

syllable: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Syllable: Unicode Glossary
syllable: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

syllable: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (linguistics) A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
▸ 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.

Opposite:

word, sentence, paragraph, text, discourse

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open, closed, nucleus, coda, onset, more...

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syllable structure, nonsense syllable, open syllable, closed syllable, syllable weight, more...

Adjectives:

first, last, second, final, single, accented, long, initial, unstressed, short, utter

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