dissyllable
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- dissyllabic adjective
Example Sentences
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Of course, Webster allows that it was "formerly often" a dissyllable, and Shakespeare found it handier thus six times out of seven.
From Time Magazine Archive
The metre Sir Charles Bowen has selected is a form of English hexameter, with the final dissyllable shortened into a foot of a single syllable only.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
In later Gaelic literature the primitive form �riu became the dissyllable �ire; hence the Norsemen called the island the land of �ire, i.e.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Thus Marie may be three-syllabled, as above, or answer to mie as a dissyllable; but vierge is always, I think, dissyllabic, vier-ge, with even stronger accent on the -ge, for the Latin -go.
From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
“Tue.”—Must be pronounced as a dissyllable; but the French cry was more probably tuez.
From The Battaile of Agincourt by Garnett, Richard
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