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octasyllabic

octasyllabic is the alternative form of octosyllabic.

Meaning of octosyllabic

Adjective

octosyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Containing eight syllables
    • If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination

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Noun

octasyllabic (plural octasyllabics)

  1. A word of eight syllables.

Forms of octasyllabic

pluraloctasyllabics

Origin of octasyllabic

From octa- + syllabic.

Questions about octasyllabic

What does octasyllabic mean?
Octasyllabic means a word of eight syllables.
What is octasyllabic the alternative form of?
Octasyllabic is the alternative form of octosyllabic.
What part of speech is octasyllabic?
Octasyllabic is a noun.
What is the plural of octasyllabic?
The plural of octasyllabic is octasyllabics.

Words near octasyllabic in the dictionary

  1. octasulfur
  2. octasulphate
  3. octasulphates
  4. octasulphide
  5. octasulphides
  6. octasyllabic
  7. octasyllabics
  8. octateuch
  9. octateuchs
  10. octathlete
  11. octathletes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: octasyllabic (page history and authors); octosyllabic (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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