Definition of Polysyllable. Meaning of Polysyllable. Synonyms of Polysyllable

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Definition of Polysyllable

Polysyllable
Polysyllable Pol"y*syl`la*ble, n. [Poly- + syllable.] A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.

Meaning of Polysyllable from wikipedia

- syllables; trisyllable (and trisyllabic) for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable (and polysyllabic), which may refer either to a word of more than three...
- fricative syllables, such as sa and ho; or with semivowels, such as iya. A polysyllable, such as sore and dokkoi, indicates a two-beat rest. This is called "kakegoe...
- Functional graphemes sokuonfu chōonpu odoriji (monosyllable) odoriji (polysyllable) * ッ (indicates a geminate consonant) ー (indicates a long vowel) ヽ (reduplicates...
- Functional graphemes sokuonfu chōonpu odoriji (monosyllable) odoriji (polysyllable) っ (indicates a geminate consonant) ー (indicates a long vowel) ゝ (reduplicates...
- rapping and poetry, multisyllabic rhymes (also known as compound rhymes, polysyllable rhymes, and sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multis) are rhymes that...
- y'ani? ('who is it?'), ye ('who') becomes y'. But the final vowel of a polysyllable is always written, even if it is elided in speech: omusajja oyo ('this...
- acceptance." Noam Chomsky deems Žižek guilty of "using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever"...
- stressed as a variation if it is a monosyllable, but not if it is part of a polysyllable except at the beginning of a line or a phrase. Thus Shakespeare wrote...
- se "if/oneself", de "of", nos "us"). Word-final stressed vowels in polysyllables are marked by the grave accent in Italian, thus università "university/universities"...
- Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the cir****flex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla...