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Definition of Disyllables
1. disyllable [n] - See also: disyllable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disyllables
Literary usage of Disyllables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"There is a problem in delimiting the data, since we must by definition first
remove from consideration those disyllables that are identifiable as compounds ..."
2. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"Names of things and abstract nouns form in part exceptions, especially disyllables:
coffee, spondee, trochee, couchée, levée, committee, jubilee. ..."
3. Works by William Herbert, Roger Hutchinson (1842)
"... that Horace rejected in the later odes the use of two final disyllables, ...
that three final disyllables cannot be used in two consecutive lines at the ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"In my Intro-, duction to the ' Aulularia,' p. xxxix, I had absolutely denied the
possibility of extruding a .radical vowel in disyllables. ..."
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