Look up: Syllable

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   syllable
   Plural form: syllables. Chunks of sound which have a separate sound when they are said. A syllable can be a word, part of a word, just one letter or a group of letters.
   Example: The word 'Internet' has 3 syllables. In - ter - net.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary
   
   
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   Syllable
   A unit of pronunciation making up a word. For example, the word 'badger' consists of two syllables 'bad' and 'ger'. In English, syllables can be defined as either stressed (long) or unstressed (short). See meter.
   Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of
   
   
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   syllable
   [n] - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
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   Syllable
   Each beat in a word is a syllable. Words with only one beat (cat, fright, jail) are called monosyllabic; words with more than one beat (super, coward, superficiality) are polysyllabic.
   Found on http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary
   
   
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   syllable
   a group of phonemes representing a complete articulation or complex of articulations,and constituting the unit of word formation Category: Language and literature
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Syllable
   Syl'la·ble noun [ Middle English sillable , Old French sillabe , French syllabe , Latin syllaba , Greek ... that which is held together, several letters taken together so as to form one sound, a syllable, from ... to take together; ... with + ... to take; confer Sanskrit labh , rabh . Confer Lemma , Dilemma .] 1. An elementary sound, ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/262
   
   
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   Syllable
   Syl'la·ble transitive verb To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate. Milton.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/262
   
   
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   syllable
   noun a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; `the word `pocket` has two syllables`
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   Syllable
   A `syllable` (Ancient Greek: ) is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. It is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological `building blocks` of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic meter, its stress patterns, etc. Syllablic writing began several hundred years be...
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    Syllable
    • (n.) 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 li...
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    syllable
    a segment of speech that consists of a vowel, with or without one or more accompanying consonant sounds immediately preceding or following—for ... [6 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/198
    
    
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    syllable
    a vowel preceded by from zero to three consonants ('awl' ... 'strand'), and followed by from zero to four consonants ('too' ... 'sixths').
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r
    
    
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    Syllable
    A part of a word that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound (e-vent, news-pa-per)
    Found on http://www.ldonline.org/glossary