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syllabist

syllabist noun: one who forms or divides words into syllables.

Noun

syllabist (plural syllabists)

  1. One who forms or divides words into syllables.
    • These are but slight tricks compared with what have been played with the Hebrew and Arabic; and we verily believe that a clever syllabist could take any English sentence and show that it was any given language and had any given meaning.1842, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, page 335
    • The relationship between these views and the Coleridgean preoccupation with "organic" versus "mechanic" form is sufficiently obvious; the theoretical distance between this view and the rationalizing tendencies of the syllabists is vast.2009, Laura Dabundo, “Metrical Theory and Versification”, in Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals)

Forms of syllabist

pluralsyllabists

Questions about syllabist

What does syllabist mean?
Syllabist means one who forms or divides words into syllables.
What part of speech is syllabist?
Syllabist is a noun.
What is the plural of syllabist?
The plural of syllabist is syllabists.

Words near syllabist in the dictionary

  1. syllabised
  2. syllabises
  3. syllabising
  4. syllabism
  5. syllabisms
  6. syllabist
  7. syllabists
  8. syllabization
  9. syllabizations
  10. syllabize
  11. syllabized

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