Dictionary

disyllable en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/ (UK)
• /ˈdī-ˌsi-lə-bəl/ (General-American)

Etymology

From di- + syllable.

Meanings

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:

Forms

Coordinates

heptasyllable · endecasyllable · decasyllable · dodecasyllable · enneasyllable · polysyllable · monosyllable · sexisyllable · octosyllable · tetrasyllable · pentasyllable · trisyllable

Deriveds

hyperdisyllable

Relateds

disyllabic

Synonyms

duosyllable

Translations (12)

de zweisilbiges Wort (a word comprising two syllables) · de Disyllabum (a word comprising two syllables) · el δισύλλαβο (a word comprising two syllables) · gd dà-shioladh (a word comprising two syllables) · de Dissyllabum (a word comprising two syllables) · de Zweisilbler (a word comprising two syllables) · de Zweisilber (a word comprising two syllables) · it bisillabo (a word comprising two syllables) · ga déshiollach (a word comprising two syllables) · it disillabo (a word comprising two syllables) · ia bisyllabo (a word comprising two syllables) · gv daa-heeley (a word comprising two syllables)