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dissyllable

dissyllable is the alternative form of disyllable.

Meaning of disyllable

Noun

disyllable (plural disyllables)

  1. A word comprising two syllables.
    • He felt as if the play itself penetrated him with the naked elbow of his neighbour, a great stripped, handsome, red-haired lady, who conversed with a gentleman on her other side in stray dissyllables which had for his ear, in the oddest way in the world, so much sound that he wondered they hadn't...1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    duosyllable

Forms of dissyllable

pluraldissyllables

Words formed from dissyllable

Questions about dissyllable

What is dissyllable the alternative form of?
Dissyllable is the alternative form of disyllable.

Words near dissyllable in the dictionary

  1. dissyllabism
  2. dissyllabize
  3. dissyllabized
  4. dissyllabizes
  5. dissyllabizing
  6. dissyllable
  7. dissyllables
  8. dissymmetric
  9. dissymmetrical
  10. dissymmetrically
  11. dissymmetries

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