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disyllabism

Meaning of "disyllabism" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DISYLLABISM

daɪˈsɪləˌbɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISYLLABISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disyllabism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DISYLLABISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of disyllabism in the English dictionary

The definition of disyllabism in the dictionary is the fact of having two syllables.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISYLLABISM

abysm · Babism · cambism · clubbism · cubism · Hobbism · mobbism · monosyllabism · nabobism · Pan-Arabism · phobism · plumbism · polysyllabism · scribism · snobbism · strabism · syllabism · Wahabism · Wahhabism · yobbism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISYLLABISM

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISYLLABISM

activism · autism · Buddhism · capitalism · criticism · feminism · hedonism · ism · journalism · Judaism · mechanism · metabolism · militarism · organism · prism · professionalism · racism · realism · terrorism · tourism

Synonyms and antonyms of disyllabism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «disyllabism» into 25 languages

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The translations of disyllabism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disyllabism» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

disyllabism
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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disyllabism
570 millions of speakers
en

English

disyllabism
510 millions of speakers
hi

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disyllabism
380 millions of speakers
ar

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disyllabism
280 millions of speakers
ru

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disyllabism
278 millions of speakers
pt

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disyllabism
270 millions of speakers
bn

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disyllabify
260 millions of speakers
fr

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disyllabism
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Disyllabify
190 millions of speakers
de

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disyllabism
180 millions of speakers
ja

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disyllabism
130 millions of speakers
ko

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disyllabism
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Disyllabify
85 millions of speakers
vi

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disyllabism
80 millions of speakers
ta

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disyllabify
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अपवित्र करणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

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disyllabify
70 millions of speakers
it

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disyllabism
65 millions of speakers
pl

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disyllabism
50 millions of speakers
uk

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disyllabism
40 millions of speakers
ro

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disyllabism
30 millions of speakers
el

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disyllabism
15 millions of speakers
af

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disyllabism
14 millions of speakers
sv

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disyllabism
10 millions of speakers
no

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disyllabism
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISYLLABISM»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISYLLABISM»

Discover the use of disyllabism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disyllabism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and ...
On the other hand the sentence "Disyl ("Boston")" contains the sign ""Boston"", thus mentions the sign "Boston", and attributes the property of disyllabism to that sign. Disyllabism is thereby a sign-property, while populousness is not. Whereas  ...
Professor W V Quine, Rudolf Carnap, Richard Creath, 1991
2
Variation and Reconstruction
Nominal prefixes within the context of proto-Hmong-Mien disyllabism Despite the arguments for the antiquity of the prefix-noun construction presented in section 1.2 above, there may still remain a question about how old the prefix-noun ...
Thomas D. Cravens, 2006
3
New Essays on Shakespeare's Sonnets
That is, the evidence that appears to require ana- pests or semi-elisions (without that evidence, there would be virtually no case whatever for either), turns out to be potent evidence for disyllabism. Summary and Conclusion The case for light ...
Hilton Landry, 1976
4
Serie B: Skrifter
The very common penultimate accentuation may have developed in combination with the drift toward disyllabism, because accentuation itself creates a clearer syllable pattern, and a paroxyton rule emphasizes the disyllabism. 10.6.4. We have ...
Otto Chr Dahl
5
The historical evolution of Chinese languages and scripts
(2) Disyllabism This is an important phenomenon of the Chinese Han language. Shiinyi xian (Shunyi County) near Beijing is often abbreviated as Shunyi by omitting xian (County). One syllable being cut off from a three-syllable expression is a ...
Youguang Zhou, 2003
6
Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology
Where an original disyllable has been made longer by reduplication or affixation, the preferred disyllabism is often restored through changes that would not otherwise occur: e. g., in the reduplicated forms of many bases (and also in unaffixed ...
Philip Baldi, 1990
7
Beyond Presence: The Late F.W.J. Schelling's Criticism of ...
Disyllabism marks the departure from the consonant, i.e. from consonance, by introducing the vowel, by introducing aspiration into the monotony of the monotone. The intermittence of express difference into the exclusivity of the monotone ...
Tyler Tritten, 2012
8
The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
When reduplicated, stems like [dl-e] 'eat-subjunctive' or [dl-ile] 'eat-perfective' recruit both -a and yi to the cause of reduplicant disyllabism, thus dl-a-yi-+dl-e or dl-a-yi+dl-ile. The facts in (12b) are more complex than reported here; see Hyman ...
Jochen Trommer, 2012
9
Minoan Signs: An African Decipherment
The predominance of disyllabism suggests to me the same languageas LinearA. Egyptian Pot Marks (Emery 1961: 202) To make matters more complicated however, we should mention the letters written on the Minoan “bone fish” (Evans  ...
GJK Campbell-Dunn, 2014
10
Lai Su Thai
... anything like the same dialect as that, say, of King Ramkamhaeng in the thirteenth century. 5. Disyllabism (syllabic infixation) has been omitted from consideration since it is most likely to be a trait borrowed from Mon or Khmer morphology. 6.
J. H. C. S. Davidson, 2005
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Disyllabism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/disyllabism>. May 2024 ».
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