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Meaning of "polysyllabic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POLYSYLLABIC

polysyllabic  [ˌpɒlɪsɪˈlæbɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYSYLLABIC

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

WHAT DOES POLYSYLLABIC 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 polysyllabic in the English dictionary

The definition of polysyllabic in the dictionary is consisting of more than two syllables.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYSYLLABIC


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYSYLLABIC

polystylar
polystyle
polystyrene
polystyrene cement
polystyrene chips
polysulphide
polysyllabical
polysyllabically
polysyllabicism
polysyllabism
polysyllable
polysyllogism
polysynaptic
polysyndeton
polysynthesis
polysynthesism
polysynthetic
polysynthetical
polysynthetically
polysynthetism

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYSYLLABIC

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 polysyllabic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polysyllabic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYSYLLABIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

多音节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

polysyllabic
570 millions of speakers

English

polysyllabic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनेक शब्दों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متعدد المقاطع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

многосложной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

polissilábico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

polysyllabic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

polysyllabique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Polysyllabic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mehrsilbig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

多音節の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

polysyllabic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polysyllabic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có nhiều âm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

polysyllabic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॉलिसिलेबिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çok heceli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

polisillabico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polysyllabic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

багатоскладової
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polisilabic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολυσύλλαβος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meerlettergrepige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polysyllabic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polysyllabic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polysyllabic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYSYLLABIC»

The term «polysyllabic» is normally little used and occupies the 110.496 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of polysyllabic
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYSYLLABIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «polysyllabic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «polysyllabic» 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 polysyllabic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYSYLLABIC»

Discover the use of polysyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polysyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is Nick Hornby's wickedly funny journey through reading This is not a book of reviews. This not a book that sneers at other books.
Nick Hornby, 2007
2
The polysyllabic spree
Discussed In This Book: Dickens's retort to minimalism; edible poems; the pros and cons of Salinger; the Dewey Decimal vs.
Nick Hornby, 2004
3
Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist
217) that the other elegies addressed to 'Gallus' (1.5; 1.10; and 1.13) do not employ numerous polysyllabic endings, and it was suggested that this is in part because Propertius is polemicizing against Gallus in those elegies inter alia by ...
Francis Cairns, 2006
4
Reading Complex Words: Cross-Language Studies
READING. ALOUD. POLYSYLLABIC. WORDS. 1. INTRODUCTION Although a great deal is known about the naming process of monosyllabic words (see for instance Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993; Norris, 1994; Plaut, McClelland,  ...
E. Assink, Dominiek Sandra, 2003
5
Intonation Systems: A Survey of Twenty Languages
Polysyllabic lexemes also have a fixed word accent system, and the primary accent is always on the last syllable of a word. The secondary accent placement is rule governed. In monomorphemic polysyllabic words rules are governed by the ...
Daniel Hirst, Albert Di Cristo, 1998
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Journal of the American Oriental Society
The future of these verbs is always regular, e. g. : — root bdsa 'read' tnksd 'tempt' alis 'go' mod. mdsa moksd malts pret. ndsa noksd naif* pres. nandsa nonoksd nanalis A large number of polysyllabic roots beginning with pa, which are in most  ...
‎1982
7
Children's Speech Sound Disorders
In this session, the difficulties both Maureen and Emma had with language processing and production, particularly the production of consonant clusters and polysyllabic words, contrasted markedly with David's verbal abilities and quick grasp ...
Caroline Bowen, 2009
8
English Pronouncing Dictionary
Descriptions of stress and rhythm are usually expressed in terms of syllables, and so it is helpful to have polysyllabic words clearly broken up into their constituent syllables. The syllabified transcription of a polysyllabic word is easier to read ...
Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, James Hartman, 2006
9
Syntactic Development, Its Input and Output
We seemed to have uncovered another constant of the informal registers of the English language: the vast majority of grammatical relations in the clausal core are built with monosyllabic verbs; and a bare minimum of 2% contains polysyllabic ...
Anat Ninio, 2011
10
The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of ...
[Pref. poly-, and Eng. syllabic, lyllabical.] Consisting of many syllables, or of more than three syllables ; pertaining to a polysyllable. p8l-y-«yl-lab'-I-ctaiii, • p8l-?-Byl' -la- bifl>m, 8, [Eng. polysyllabic ; -i-fm.] The quality or state of being polysyllabic, ...
Robert Hunter, 1886

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYSYLLABIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polysyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Chris Squire was the quintessential rock star and consummate …
... than Anderson. It was practically heroic of Chris to sometimes have to play complex bass lines while singing lyrics that could be polysyllabic. «Something Else! Reviews, Jul 15»
2
Scam for a scam politics
Sir Ernest Gowers coined the term 'officialese' in 1948 to denote the pompous, abstract, euphemistic, polysyllabic and circumlocutory language ... «The Hans India, Jul 15»
3
HuffPo 'Data Justice' Director: 'Will Uber Help Kill The Planet?'
... largely because both are evergreen (there's never enough spending, according to them) and involve polysyllabic catch words that make the ... «PJ Media, Jul 15»
4
Stephen A. Smith roasted on social media for saying all blacks need …
The shamelessly bombastic and polysyllabic Stephen A. Smith, who specializes in shooting out five-dollar words with machine-gun rapidity and ... «atlantadailyworld, Jul 15»
5
Re A-S (Children) [2015] EWCA Civ 748
Normal baby vocalisations included polysyllabic babble and normal multi-tonal crying. … During this first ten minutes there are no audible ... «Family Law, Jul 15»
6
Shelf Life: Family Reading Program activities at the Missoula Public …
The chapter titles are ironic plays on polysyllabic economic terms, the tone is light, the dialog is catchy, and the main character is very ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
7
Good thing 'Jeb' and 'Bush' are one syllable words
During an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader, Bush teed off on Obama for being too polysyllabic. Defending the proposition that ... «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
8
Politicians need to return to good rhetoric if they want to be heard
They also include devices with paralysingly polysyllabic names like antanaclasis and paronomasia, which sound like embarrassing diseases. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
9
'In Search of Sir Thomas Browne,' by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
It is characterized by rolling periods decked with balanced subordinate clauses, a polysyllabic Latinate vocabulary, elaborate rhythms, stately ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
10
'When you catch an adjective, kill it'
... to sound intellectual usually resulted in a sort of vague, stilted, polysyllabic confusion. I told her that the quickest cure for wordiness or flowery ... «Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, Jul 15»

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