disyllable
nounUK /daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/ · US /ˈdī-ˌsi-lə-bəl/
Etymology From di- + syllable.
1
A word comprising two syllables.
- He felt as if the play itself penetrated him with the naked elbow of his neighbour, a great stripped, handsome, red-haired lady, who conversed with a gentleman on her other side in stray dissyllables which had for his ear, in the oddest way in the world, so much sound that he wondered they hadn't more sense; and he recognised by the same law, beyond the footlights, what he was pleased to take for the very flush of English life.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- duosyllable
- Derived terms
- hyperdisyllable
- Related terms
- disyllabic
- Coordinate terms
- monosyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pentasyllable, sexisyllable, heptasyllable, octosyllable, enneasyllable, decasyllable, endecasyllable, dodecasyllable, polysyllable