duosyllable
nounEtymology From duo- + syllable.
1
A word containing two syllables.
- To this minute account we might perhaps merely answer with laconic gravity, "Suppose," for on this magic duosyllable does the whole tale of gorgeous fortune and unprecedented gullibility depend.1825, Benjamin Disraeli, Lawyers and Legislators, page 43:
- Martin Amis famously saw off the cult of personality in tennis when he defined it as “an exact synonym of a seven-letter duosyllable starting with ‘a’, ending with ‘e’ (and also featuring, in order of appearance, an ‘ss’, an ‘h’, an ‘o’ and ‘l’)”.2015 July 11, Geoff Dyer, “Prim though its traditions may be, Wimbledon is right to defend them. Especially against Nick Kyrgios”, in The Guardian:
- Synonyms
- disyllable
- Derived terms
- duosyllabic
- Coordinate terms
- monosyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pentasyllable, sexisyllable, heptasyllable, octosyllable, enneasyllable, decasyllable, endecasyllable, dodecasyllable, polysyllable