Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A three-syllable word.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word consisting of three syllables.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A word consisting of three syllables only.
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- noun a
word comprised of threesyllables
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a word having three syllables
Etymologies
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Examples
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Metrically it represents one short and two long quantities (U — —), forming in Latin a trisyllable foot, called
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It gives them no direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura.
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Could'st thou not find a trisyllable to express some parts of nature for a collection of which that learned and worthy physician is eminent?
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Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
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Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The name is not Iroquois -- yet it may be, too -- a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape.
The Reckoning 1899
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As with Mutineer once, he had dropped his bridle, but there was no use in uttering, as he had, then, the trisyllable which had reduced the horse to order.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894
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This has all the technical marks of late Elizabethan dramatic blank verse: "vision" as a trisyllable; the redundant syllable in the middle of the line; the colloquial abbreviation of "in the"; not to mention the fanciful vein of the whole passage, which might lead any one unacquainted with Milton to look for this quotation among the dramas of the prime.
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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[52] A trisyllable, as in strictness it ought to be.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
hernesheir commented on the word trisyllable
cf. mirific
January 7, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word trisyllable
'I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors." -- Henry David Thoreau
January 7, 2009
sionnach commented on the word trisyllable
Thank God he cleared that up about which planet - people might have gotten awfully confused otherwise.
January 7, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word trisyllable
"You!, what planet is this?" -- blurted by Dr. McCoy, in a Star Trek television episode.
January 7, 2009