dissyllable
/dih-sil-uh-buhl, dis-sil-, dahy-sil-/US // dɪˈsɪl ə bəl, dɪsˈsɪl-, ˈdaɪ sɪl- //UK // (dɪˈsɪləbəl, ˈdɪsˌsɪl-, ˈdaɪsɪl-) //
异音节,双音节,异体字,异音节的
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : disyllable.
Examples
Dissyllable nouns in er, as cnker, btter, have the accent on the former syllable.
It will thus be seen that many of Chaucers lines end with a dissyllable, instead of a single syllable.
The practice which Shelley follows in this line of making 'heaven' a dissyllable is very frequent with him.
Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file without one dissyllable betwixt them.
The same soft word, which Thomasine made a dissyllable, and Boodles sang as an anthem, followed.
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