Meaning of "trisyllable" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF TRISYLLABLE

trisyllable  [traɪˈsɪləbəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRISYLLABLE

Trisyllable 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 TRISYLLABLE 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 trisyllable in the English dictionary

The definition of trisyllable in the dictionary is a word of three syllables.

TRANSLATION OF TRISYLLABLE

Find out the translation of trisyllable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

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

• Translator English - Chinese: trisyllable
• Translator English - Spanish: trisyllable
• English: trisyllable
• Translator English - Hindi: trisyllable
• Translator English - Arabic: trisyllable
• Translator English - Russian: trisyllable
• Translator English - Portuguese: trissílabos
• Translator English - Bengali: ত্রিস্বরা
• Translator English - French: trisyllabe
• Translator English - Malay: Trisikll
• Translator English - German: trisyllable
• Translator English - Japanese: trisyllable
• Translator English - Korean: trisyllable
• Translator English - Javanese: Trisikll
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tiếng ba âm
• Translator English - Tamil: மூன்று அசைகள் கொண்ட சொல்
• Translator English - Marathi: त्रिमितीय
• Translator English - Turkish: üç heceli sözcük
• Translator English - Italian: trisyllable
• Translator English - Polish: trisyllable
• Translator English - Ukrainian: trisyllable
• Translator English - Romanian: trisyllable
• Translator English - Greek: trisyllable
• Translator English - Afrikaans: drielettergrepig woord
• Translator English - Swedish: trisyllable
• Translator English - Norwegian: trisyllable

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRISYLLABLE»

Discover the use of trisyllable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trisyllable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Publications in Classical Philology

44 36 5 verses end ' monosyllable trisyllable. ' 4 • » || II verses end ' monosyllable quadrisyllable. ' .~. 19 0 0 verses end ' monosyllable pentasyllable. ' (! 7 ii verses end ' dissyllable monosyllable. ' 7 32 s 34 verses end 'dissyllable dissyllable.

University of California, Berkeley, 1908

Publications in Classical Philology

monosyllable trisyllable. ' monosyllable quadrisyllable. ' monosyllable pentasyllable. ' dissyllable monosyllable. ' dissyllable dissyllable. ' dissyllable trisyllable. ' dissyllable quadrisyllable. ' dissyllable pentasyllable. ' dissyllable hexasyllable.

California. University, University of California, Berkeley, 1904

Hiatus in Greek melic poetry

Edward Bull Clapp. TABLE II I. Summary of word-lenjrths in the concluding portions of all four verses. TABLE IV. This table takes account of all words found. ' monosyllable monosyllable. ' ' monosyllable dissyllable. ' ' monosyllable trisyllable.

Edward Bull Clapp, 1904

The Shakespeare Key: Unlocking the Treasures of His Style, ...

And in such alligant ['elegant' or, perhaps, ' eloquent.' Sec CORRUPTIONS] terms .— Merry lV.. ii. 2. Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiatcs [as trisyllable].— Coriol., i. 6. Be called thieves of the day's bmuty [pronounced as ' booty'].—I H. IV. , i.

Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke, 1879

The Shakespeare Key: Unlocking the Treasures of His Style, ...

Tam. of S., Indue. 2. And in such alligant [' elegant ' or, perhaps, ' eloquent.' See Corrupt1ons] terms.— Merry W ., ii. 2. Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates [ as trisyllable]. — Coriol., i. 6. Be called thieves of the day's beauty [pronounced ...

Charles Cowden Clarke, Mrs Mary Cowden Clarke, 1879

The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Country, trisyllable. T. N. Act I. Sc. II. The like of him. Know'st thou this coun- try? Coriol. Act I. Sc. IX. As you have been ; that's for my country. Remembrance, quadrisyllable. T. N. Act I. Sc. I. And lasting in her sad remembrance. W. T. Act IV.

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821

Rolfe's Shakespeare: -[13] King Henry the Sixth, pt. 1-3

Nemesis, 208 nephew, 195 Nestorlike, 194 nightertale, 161 nine sihyls, 181 objected, 192 obloquy 194 obstacleI (= obstinate), 213 of benefit, 214 Olivers, 18o opinéons (quadrisyllable) , 18 or bright -— , 178 or else, 192 Orleans ( trisyllable), ...

William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe, 1905

The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of ...

Country, trisyllable. T. N. Act I. Sc. II. The like of him. Know'st thou this country? Coriol. Act I. Sc. IX. As you have been ; that's for my country. Remembrance, quadrisyllable. T. N. Act I. Sc. I. And lasting in her sad remembrance. W. T. Act IV. Sc. IV ...

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, 1821

Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost

Country, trisyllable. T. N. Act I. Sc. II. The like of him. Know'st thou this countr .9 Coriol. Ayct I. Sc. D(. As you have been; that's for my country. Remembrance, quadrisyllable. T. N. Act I. Sc. I. And lasting in her sad remembrance. W. T. Act IV.

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, 1821

Shakespeare's History of King Henry the Sixth

... Gloster (trisyllable), 183, 184, 199, 202 Gloster, Duke of, 176 Goliases, 181 grisly, 186 guardant (noun), 207 hale (verb), 179, 194 haughty, 195, 201, 203 have with thee, 193 heavens (of stage), 177 Hecate (trisyllable), 200 Helen ( Empress), ...

William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe, 1910

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRISYLLABLE»

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BBC rewriting Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons is bonkers …

Yes, I could see that cleaner, less puerile minds than mine might think it a pretty name, a trisyllable that tripped mellifluously off the tongue. But then, couldn't the ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»

Spectator competition: Ed Miliband's bacon roll blues (plus: new …

Your next challenge is to write a sonnet beginning 'Shall I compare thee to a [trisyllable of your choice]'. Please email entries to [e-mail] by midday ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jan 15»

Huntington town board: better late than never on ethics

Do town officials believe that a pair of trisyllable words -- "technical" and "parallel" -- are enough to convince residents that the relationship, at minimum, need not ... «Newsday, Nov 14»

Connectome, Royal Opera House, London

Then, the first performance of Alastair Marriott's Connectome (a trisyllable, I gather). The message, advises a programme note, concerns the brain's “wiring” and ... «Financial Times, Jun 14»