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syllable British & World English

a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno

syllable in syllable British & World English

a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word; for example, there are two syllables in water and three in inferno

closed syllable British & World English

a syllable ending in a consonant

syllable-timed British & World English

(of a language) characterized by a rhythm in which syllables occur at roughly equivalent time intervals, irrespective of the stress placed on them. French is a syllable-timed language

nonsense syllable British & World English

an arbitrarily formed syllable with no meaning, especially in songs or as used in memory experiments and tests

in words of one syllable in syllable British & World English

using very simple language; expressed plainly

syllable English-French

syllabe f

syllable English-Italian

sillaba f