Any of the units into which a word may be divided, usually consisting of a vowel sound with a consonant before or after Arithmetic is a word of four syllables
A unit of pronunciation uttered without interruption, forming the whole or part of a word, and usually having one vowel or diphthong sound optionally surrounded by one or more consonants Example: there are two syllables in "water" and three in "inferno"
a unit of spoken language that is next bigger than a speech sound It consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or of a syllabic consonant alone or of either with one or more consonant sounds preceding or following It should not be confused with a syllabus, which always precedes the course
(1) An element of a syllabary (2) A basic unit of articulation that corresponds to a pulmonary pulse
a vowel preceded by from zero to three consonants ("awl" "strand"), and followed by from zero to four consonants ("too" "sixths")
a minimal unit of sequential speech sounds made up of a vowel sound or a vowel consonant combination and always contains a vowel sound
In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance
a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
A syllable is a word part that contains a vowel or, in spoken language, a vowel sound (e-vent, news-pa-per)
An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word
A word or part of a word representing a sound produced as a unit by a single impulse of the voice, consisting of either a vowel sound alone as in oh or a vowel with attendant consonants, as in throne Sidelight: In modern English, word syllables are characterized as either accented or unaccented; in non-accentual languages such as classical Greek and Latin, syllables are classified as either long or short, depending on the the quantity of time it takes to pronounce them due to varying vowel lengths and consonant groupings Thus, the distinction between accented and long syllables on the one hand, and unaccented and short syllables on the other, represents the difference between accentual verse and quantitive verse The basis for syllabic verse is the count of syllables in a line