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Meaning of "octosyllable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OCTOSYLLABLE

octosyllable  [ˈɒktəˌsɪləbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCTOSYLLABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Octosyllable 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 OCTOSYLLABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Octosyllable

The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables. It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in iambs or trochees in languages with a stress accent. Its first occurrence is in a 10th-century Old French saint's legend, the Vie de Saint Leger; another early use is in the early 12th-century Anglo-Norman Voyage de saint Brendan. It is often used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. While commonly used in couplets, typical stanzas using octosyllables are: décima, some quatrains, redondilla. In Spanish verse, an octosyllable is a line that has its seventh syllable stressed, on the principle that this would normally be the penultimate syllable of a word. If the final word of a line does not fit this pattern, the line could have eight or seven or nine syllables, thus - 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Gra/NA/da 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Ma/DRID 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / MA//ga In Medieval French literature, the octosyllable rhymed couplet was the most common verse form used in verse chronicles, romances, lais and dits.

Definition of octosyllable in the English dictionary

The definition of octosyllable in the dictionary is a line of verse composed of eight syllables. Other definition of octosyllable is a word of eight syllables.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OCTOSYLLABLE


assimilable
əˈsɪmɪləbəl
available
əˈveɪləbəl
bailable
ˈbeɪləbəl
decasyllable
ˈdɛkəˌsɪləbəl
dissyllable
dɪˈsɪləbəl
disyllable
ˈdaɪsɪləbəl
dodecasyllable
ˌdəʊdɛkəˈsɪləbəl
hendecasyllable
ˈhɛndɛkəˌsɪləbəl
irreconcilable
ɪˈrɛkənˌsaɪləbəl
monosyllable
ˈmɒnəˌsɪləbəl
polysyllable
ˈpɒlɪˌsɪləbəl
quadrisyllable
ˈkwɒdrɪˌsɪləbəl
refillable
riːˈfɪləbəl
resaleable
riːˈseɪləbəl
saleable
ˈseɪləbəl
scalable
ˈskeɪləbəl
syllable
ˈsɪləbəl
tetrasyllable
ˌtɛtrəˈsɪləbəl
trisyllable
traɪˈsɪləbəl
unavailable
ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCTOSYLLABLE

octogenary
octogynous
octohedron
octonarian
octonaries
octonarius
octonary
octonocular
octopetalous
octopod
octopodan
octopodous
octopus
octopush
octopusher
octoroon
octosepalous
octostichous
octosyllabic
octothorp

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCTOSYLLABLE

able
articulable
billable
calculable
concealable
controllable
fillable
in words of one syllable
incalculable
inviolable
manipulable
peelable
recyclable
regulable
resealable
rollable
scrollable
sellable
semblable
uncontrollable
unsellable

Synonyms and antonyms of octosyllable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «octosyllable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCTOSYLLABLE

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

Translator English - Chinese

octosyllable
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

octosílabo
570 millions of speakers

English

octosyllable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

octosyllable
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

octosyllable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

octosyllable
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

octissílabo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অষ্টস্বর শব্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

octosyllabe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Octosyllable
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Achtsilber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

octosyllable
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

octosyllable
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Octosyllable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

câu thơ tám âm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எட்டு அசைகளைக் கொண்ட கவிதை வரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अष्टव्यययोग्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sekiz heceli kelime
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ottonario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

octosyllable
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

octosyllable
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

octosyllable
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

octosyllable
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

achtlettergrepig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

octosyllable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

octosyllable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of octosyllable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTOSYLLABLE»

The term «octosyllable» is barely ever used and occupies the 197.142 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTOSYLLABLE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTOSYLLABLE»

Discover the use of octosyllable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to octosyllable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Octosyllable
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables. It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in iambs or trochees in languages with a stress accent.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French ...
2 THE OCTOSYLLABLE, RHYTHMICITY AND SYLLABIC POSITION GAUTIER'S EMA UX ET CAMEES The octosyllable has received, relatively speaking, as little attention as the poetry of Théophile Gautier.1 This is partly because it has so ...
Clive Scott, 1986
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Having medial diaeresis, it too might be regarded as a system of trochaic quaternarii, as might the anapestic. Beare, –; Crusius; C. Questa, Introduzione alla metrica di Plauto (); Halporn et al. J. W. Halporn OCTOSYLLABLE.
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Having medial diaeresis, it too might be regarded as a system of trochaic quaternarii, as might the anapestic. Beare, –; Crusius; C. Questa, Introduzione alla metrica di Plauto (); Halporn et al. J. W. Halporn OCTOSYLLABLE.
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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The Singer Resumes the Tale
There is a rare noun going with 'brighter' (sv'jetlje) in the octosyllable, namely, ' sword' (mac). These are the "more or less stable" components in the octosyllable. The variables in the decasyllable overlap with those in the octosyllable, because  ...
Albert Bates Lord, Mary Louise Lord, 1995
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The Canterbury Tales: To which are Added an Essay on His ...
Though I call this the octosyllable metre, from what I apprehend to have been its original form, it often consists of nine, and sometimes of ten syllables ; but the eighth is always the last accented syllable. The oldest French poems, to the latter  ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1860
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The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With an Essay on His ...
Thirdly, the Octosyllable Metre ; which was in reality the antient Dimeter Iambic. Fourthly, the Stanza of six verses ; of which the first, second, fourth, and fifth, were in the complete Octosyllable Metre ; and the third and last catalectic, i. e. wanting  ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, 1860
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Poetical works
Thirdly, the Octosyllable Metre ; which was in reality the antient Dimeter Iambic. Fourthly, the Stanza of six verses ; of which the first, second, fourth, and fifth, were in the complete Octosyllable Metre ; and the third and last catalectic, i. c. wanting  ...
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1860
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Understanding French Verse : A Guide for Singers: A Guide ...
The octosyllable has only one fixed accent, on the eighth syllable. As the longest vers simple, it has no obligatory caesura, unlike the alexandrine and decasyllable. Lahor's poem “Chanson triste,” set by Duparc, is an example: Dans ton cœur ...
David Hunter, 2005
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The Making of a Language: The Case of the Idiom of ...
2,104 verses arranged in 526 quatrains, provided with a 2-quatrain preface, recorded on 142 pages, averaging 4 stanzas per page; octosyllable with twin rhymes aabb, often incomplete, usually simple, mixed masculine (oxytonic) and ...
Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, 2003

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCTOSYLLABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term octosyllable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Each poem is intended to illuminate the meaning of the word on which it is based. For example, the octosyllable poem for "poetry" reads:. «Gizmag, Dec 12»

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