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Meaning of "disyllabic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISYLLABIC

disyllabic  [ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISYLLABIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disyllabic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DISYLLABIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins. Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic meter and its stress patterns. Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing". A word that consists of a single syllable is called a monosyllable. Similar terms include disyllable for a word of two syllables; trisyllable for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable, which may refer either to a word of more than three syllables or to any word of more than one syllable.

Definition of disyllabic in the English dictionary

The definition of disyllabic in the dictionary is containing two syllables.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISYLLABIC


asyllabic
ˌæsɪˈlæbɪk
decasyllabic
ˌdekəsɪˈlæbɪk
dissyllabic
ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk
dodecasyllabic
ˌdəʊdekəsɪˈlæbɪk
hendecasyllabic
hɛnˌdɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk
heptasyllabic
ˌheptəsɪˈlæbɪk
imparisyllabic
ɪmˌpærsɪˈlæbɪk
monosyllabic
ˌmɒnəsɪˈlæbɪk
multisyllabic
ˌmʌltɪsɪˈlæbɪk
nonsyllabic
ˌnɒnsɪˈlæbɪk
octosyllabic
ˈɒktəʊsɪˈlæbɪk
parisyllabic
ˌpærɪsɪˈlæbɪk
pentasyllabic
ˌpɛntəsɪˈlæbɪk
perissosyllabic
pəˌrɪsəʊsɪˈlæbɪk
polysyllabic
ˌpɒlɪsɪˈlæbɪk
quadrisyllabic
ˌkwɒdrɪsɪˈlæbɪk
rabic
ˈræbɪk
syllabic
sɪˈlæbɪk
tetrasyllabic
ˌtɛtrəsɪˈlæbɪk
trisyllabic
ˌtraɪsɪˈlæbɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISYLLABIC

disulphuret
disulphuric acid
disunion
disunionist
disunite
disunited
disunities
disunity
disusage
disuse
disused
disutilities
disutility
disvalue
disvouch
disworship
disyllabify
disyllabism
disyllable
disyoke

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISYLLABIC

aerobic
agoraphobic
amoebic
anaerobic
Arabic
cannabic
claustrophobic
coulombic
cubic
gum arabic
homophobic
hydrophobic
limbic
Mozarabic
orthorhombic
Pan-Arabic
phobic
pubic
suprapubic
xenophobic

Synonyms and antonyms of disyllabic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «disyllabic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISYLLABIC

Find out the translation of disyllabic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of disyllabic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disyllabic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

双音节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

disyllabic
570 millions of speakers

English

disyllabic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

disyllabic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

disyllabic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

двусложный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

disyllabic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

disworship
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dissyllabique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keagamaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zweisilbige
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

2音節
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

disyllabic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Disworship
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có hai âm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

disworship
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपवित्रता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

disworship
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disillabo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

disyllabic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

двоскладових
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bisilabice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Δισύλλαβα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tweesillabiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

disyllabic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

disyllabic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disyllabic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISYLLABIC»

The term «disyllabic» is normally little used and occupies the 133.441 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISYLLABIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «disyllabic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «disyllabic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disyllabic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISYLLABIC»

Discover the use of disyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar: The Formation ...
When all three categories are taken together, the disyllabic words account for more than 75% of 3,000 words. Beyond these basic words, there is a greater percentage of words that are disyllabic. Overall, it is estimated that more than 80 % of ...
Yuzhi Shi, 2002
2
Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for ...
In this paper I wish to discuss the morphology and dialect characteristics of disyllabic nouns in Old English, in particular those neuter nouns which historically belong to the a-stems, for example heafod 'head'. These nouns have long been the ...
Raymond Hickey, Stanisław Puppel, 1997
3
Studies on Turkish and Turkic Languages: Proceedings of the ...
Preference of syllabic structures based on the attempted target words To determine whether children's preference for disyllabic words increases as a function of age, both cross-sectional and longitudinal data were divided into different age ...
Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake, 2000
4
El Rey Don Pedro en Madrid Y Infanzón de Illescas: Critical ...
They included?1 caer (disyllabic: PT i; ST 1), desconfianza (with dieresis: PT i ; ST i), deseo (trisyllabic: PT 6 ; ST 4), Efestwn (with dieresis: PT i; ST 1), hiiir (with dieresis: PT 3 ; ST 3); and persiiadir (with dieresis: PT 1; ST 1). Seventeen words  ...
Carol Bingham Kirby, 2003
5
The Classical Tibetan Language
DISYLLABIC STRESS GROUPS A striking feature in the development of Tibetan has been an increasing tendency toward DISYLLABISM in word formation: there has developed considerable analogic pressure in the language for words ...
Stephan V. Beyer, 1992
6
Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, Lexical, ...
Hilde, for example, for a long time had no disyllabic forms (other than 'papa' and ' mama'), and most of her forms corresponded to monosyllabic targets. Shortly before she produced disyllabic forms, she had monosyllabic forms corresponding  ...
Jürgen Weissenborn, Barbara Höhle, 2001
7
Modern English Structures, second edition: Form, Function, ...
Disyllabic adjectives FIGURE 2.23 O DISYLLABIC ADJECTIVE INFLECTIONS Adjectives following this pattern are disyllabic words whose second syllable is rather weak; technically they are disyllabic words, but more often they follow the ...
Bernard O'Dwyer, 2006
8
Tonal Accents in Norwegian: Phonology, morphology and ...
Examples (5c,d) bear no lexical specification (/kirke/, /hest/), and since 'kirke2 ' church' contains a disyllabic trochee, it has Accent 2, which complies with rule ( 4b, (i)). Rule (4b, (ii)) applies to hest1 'horse' because it lacks a disyllabic trochee  ...
Allison Wetterlin, 2010
9
New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation: Morphology, ...
Given the fact that Classical Chinese was basically a monosyllabic language, and given the Foot Formation Rule requirement that a standard foot must be formed by a unit at least two syllables long, the only way to make a disyllabic foot in the ...
Jerome Lee Packward, 1998
10
English Prosodic Morphology
unsuffixed disyllabic clippings must be occupied by a lax vowel and a coda consonant. This is true for 43 of the total of 44 forms in the database (i.e. 97.7%). Examples are provided in (36). (36) obligatory VC rimes in unsuffixed disyllables  ...
Sabine Lappe, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISYLLABIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
We Review a Self-Published E-Book About a Russian Werewolf
... nearly all with disyllabic Russian names ending with “a” which even the author confuses—in Russia, where he meets a beautiful woman with ... «Wired, May 15»
2
What It's Like Speaking A Different Language From Your Parents
We have never used more than a single word – disyllabic at most – with each other to describe a feeling. I wonder if they are exactly what they ... «BuzzFeed News, Apr 15»
3
Naming a band is tougher than naming a child
You could have 10 Vivaans (or some other disyllabic name ending in –aan, per the trend of the times) in your class alone; they'll be known by ... «Forbes India, Feb 15»
4
Stephen Colbert Gave The Final 'The Word' on 'The Colbert Report …
On Thursday's series finale of The Colbert Report, Stephen delivered his final Word — a disyllabic embodiment of the legacy he is happy to ... «Bustle, Dec 14»
5
Two popular 'Game of Thrones' characters 'taking hiatus' for fifth …
Game of Thrones is to lose much-loved disyllabic hero Hodor in season 5, with actor Kristian Nairn confirming that his character along with ... «Irish Independent, Sep 14»
6
Kiesza: The VMA Nominee You Need To Be Into, Like, Now
And she somehow manages to do all that with a wordless, disyllabic chorus of “Ooh! Ahh!” What in the name of CeCe Peniston? I live. «MTV.com, Jul 14»
7
REVIEW: Game of Thrones, season four, episode ten
There were also some assorted whimpers and moans, but none of them became fully formed, disyllabic Hodors, so they don't count. «NEWS.com.au, Jun 14»
8
Nature Watch: The aroma of fox and the great tit songbook in …
Typically, these songs consist of disyllabic song phrases repeated several times and the 'metallic' sounds created are comparable to those ... «Exeter Express and Echo, Mar 14»
9
The Pirates are monitoring players' vital signs during games
... ace pitcher and hating on baseball people smarter than he is, I'm almost impressed he managed to come up with a disyllabic insult. Almost. «NBCSports.com, Mar 14»
10
The Goldman Sachs Annual Report Look Book, 1999–2012
In 2006, Goldman debuted its disyllabic marketing slogan — "Clients. Markets. Culture." — and spent some time crafting a colorful mosaic of ... «New York Magazine, Apr 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Disyllabic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/disyllabic>. Apr 2024 ».
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