Usually means: Omission of sounds in words.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word apocope:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. apocope: Merriam-Webster
  2. apocope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apocope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apocope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apocope: Vocabulary.com
  6. apocope: Wordnik
  7. apocope: Wiktionary
  8. apocope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. apocope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. apocope: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Apocope, apocope: Dictionary.com
  12. Apocope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Apocope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. apocope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. apocope: Rhymezone
  16. Apocope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. apocope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. apocope: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. apocope: FreeDictionary.org
  20. apocope: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. apocope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. apocope: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Apocope: World Wide Words
  24. apocope: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. APOCOPE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apocope: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apocope)

noun:  (phonetics, prosody, strictly) The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
noun:  (loosely) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.

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