- any of the units into which a word is divided, containing a vowel sound and usually one or more consonants
- a word with two syllables
- a two-syllable word
- ‘Potato’ is stressed on the second syllable.
Extra ExamplesTopics Languagea2- She split the word up into syllables so that he could have a go at spelling it.
- the final syllable of ‘Oregon’
- words that have three or more syllables
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- third
- …
- consist of
- contain
- have
- …
- syllable in
- syllable of
- stress falls on a syllable
- stress is on a syllable
- a word of one, two, etc. syllables
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French sillabe, via Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- ‘together’ + lambanein ‘take’.
Idioms
See syllable in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee syllable in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin words of one syllable
- using very simple language
- Could you say that again in words of one syllable?
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