(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.

(transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.

plural of syllable

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of syllable

Having a specified number of syllables.

simple past tense and past participle of syllable

present participle of syllable

(linguistics) Of a language: such that every spoken syllable takes up more or less the same amount of time.

plural of open syllable

(linguistics) A syllable that has no coda after its nucleus, and which hence ends in a vowel.