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disyllables

disyllables is the plural 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

Questions about disyllables

What is disyllables the plural of?
Disyllables is the plural of disyllable.

Words near disyllables in the dictionary

  1. disyllabize
  2. disyllabized
  3. disyllabizes
  4. disyllabizing
  5. disyllable
  6. disyllables
  7. disynaptic
  8. disynaptically
  9. disyndiotactic
  10. disyoke
  11. disyoked

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