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Definition of Syllables

1. syllable [v] - See also: syllable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllables

Literary usage of Syllables

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"Separation of syllables at the End of a Line. ... Particular syllables in a word or particular words in a sentence may be made prominent above others and ..."

2. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger (1856)
"With regard to the commencement of the syllable it is to be observed, that every syllable must begin with a consonant; and there are no syllables in the ..."

3. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"OF syllables. AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE QUANTITY OF VOWELS. A survey of the laws which regulate the choice of a long or a short vowel and the exchange of ..."

4. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"Of final syllables, syllables whether long by nature or by ' position ' are shortened ... Putting final syllables aside for the present, the usual case of ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"The material consisted of meaningless syllables, while the procedure consisted in reading aloud these syllables as they appeared at irregular intervals on a ..."

6. A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1873)
"syllables. 81. Every single vowel or diphthong, whether with ... In the division of syllables, b. Consonants in the middle of a word, between two vowels, ..."

7. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"Separation of syllables at the End of a Line. ... Particular syllables in a word or particular words in a sentence may be made prominent above others and ..."

8. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger (1856)
"With regard to the commencement of the syllable it is to be observed, that every syllable must begin with a consonant; and there are no syllables in the ..."

9. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius (1859)
"OF syllables. AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE QUANTITY OF VOWELS. A survey of the laws which regulate the choice of a long or a short vowel and the exchange of ..."

10. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"Of final syllables, syllables whether long by nature or by ' position ' are shortened ... Putting final syllables aside for the present, the usual case of ..."

11. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"The material consisted of meaningless syllables, while the procedure consisted in reading aloud these syllables as they appeared at irregular intervals on a ..."

12. A Greek Grammar, for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley (1873)
"syllables. 81. Every single vowel or diphthong, whether with ... In the division of syllables, b. Consonants in the middle of a word, between two vowels, ..."

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