monosyllable
monosyllable noun: a word of one syllable.
Noun
monosyllable (plural monosyllables)
monosyllable meaning in Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
monosyllable in Bengali
- একাক্ষর শব্দ
monosyllable in Telugu
- a word of one syllable
- ఏకాక్షరము ēkākṣaramu
monosyllable in Malayalam
- ഒരു പദാംശം മാത്രമുളള വാക്ക്, ഏകാക്ഷരം, ഏകാക്ഷരപദം
Examples of monosyllable in a sentence
- This involves first clipping a word down to a closed monosyllable.
- I wanted something more definite, a monosyllable: Dot or Pat, like a foot set down.
- For instance, words can differ in length, and we can rhyme a monosyllable with a polysyllable, like tracks with haversacks.
Forms of monosyllable
| plural | monosyllables |
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Origin of monosyllable
From mono- + syllable.
Words formed from monosyllable
Questions about monosyllable
- What does monosyllable mean?
- Monosyllable means a word of one syllable.
- What is monosyllable in Bengali?
- Monosyllable in Bengali is একাক্ষর শব্দ. See Monosyllable meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is monosyllable?
- Monosyllable is a noun.
- What is the plural of monosyllable?
- The plural of monosyllable is monosyllables.
Words near monosyllable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: monosyllable (page history and authors); monosyllable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); monosyllable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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