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a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"

a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"

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 liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.

In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

That part of a word which can be clearly spoken by a single effort of the voice; in writing and printing, such a part of a word separated from the rest of the word.

Several letters taken together so as to form one sound: a word or part of a word uttered by a single effort of the voice: a small part of a sentence.

Word, or part of a word, uttered by a single impulse of the voice.

To utter or express in syllables.

A single vocal sound forming a word, or part of a word.

n. [Latin, Greek] An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds uttered together, or at a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word ;-in writing and printing, part of a word separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice ;-a small part of a sentence or discourse ;-a concise part ;-a jot ; a tittle.