English > syllable: 1 sense > noun 1, communicationMeaning | A unit of spoken language larger / larger than a phoneme. |
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Example | "the word 'pocket' has two syllables" |
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Part of | word | A unit of language that native speakers can identify |
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Narrower | antepenult, antepenultima, antepenultimate | The 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end |
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penult, penultima, penultimate | The next to last syllable in a word |
reduplication | The syllable added in a reduplicated word form |
solfa syllable | One of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization |
ultima | The last syllable in a word |
Broader | language unit, linguistic unit | One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
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Spanish | silaba, sílaba |
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Catalan | sílaba, síl·laba |
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Adjectives | syllabic | consisting of a syllable or syllables |
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syllabic | of or relating to syllables |
Verbs | syllabify, syllabicate, syllabize | divide into syllables |
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syllabize | utter with distinct articulation of each syllable |