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octosyllable

octosyllable noun: line of verse with eight syllables.

Noun

octosyllable (plural octosyllables)

  1. line of verse with eight syllables

octosyllable meaning in Tamil

octosyllable in Tamil

எட்டு அசைகளைக்கொண்ட செய்யுள், எடடு அசைகளைக் கொண்ட

Forms of octosyllable

pluraloctosyllables

Origin of octosyllable

From octo- + syllable.

Questions about octosyllable

What does octosyllable mean?
Octosyllable means line of verse with eight syllables.
What is octosyllable in Tamil?
Octosyllable in Tamil is எட்டு அசைகளைக்கொண்ட செய்யுள், எடடு அசைகளைக் கொண்ட. See Octosyllable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is octosyllable?
Octosyllable is a noun.
What is the plural of octosyllable?
The plural of octosyllable is octosyllables.

Words near octosyllable in the dictionary

  1. octostyle
  2. octostyles
  3. octosyllabic
  4. octosyllabical
  5. octosyllabics
  6. octosyllable
  7. octosyllables
  8. octotaxic
  9. octothorn
  10. octothorns
  11. octothorp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: octosyllable (page history and authors); octosyllable (Tamil 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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