disyllable
English
Alternative forms
- dissyllable
Etymology
di- + syllable
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/
Noun
disyllable (plural disyllables)
- A word comprising two syllables.
- 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:
- 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.
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Related terms
- disyllabic
Translations
a word comprising two syllables
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