dissyllable

American  

[dih-sil-uh-buhl, dis-sil-, dahy-sil-] / dɪˈsɪl ə bəl, dɪsˈsɪl-, ˈdaɪ sɪl- /

noun

1. disyllable.

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dissyllable British  

/ ˈdaɪsɪləbəl, ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk, ˈdaɪsɪl-, dɪˈsɪləbəl, ˌdɪssɪ-, dɪˈsɪl-, ˌdɪ-, ˌdaɪ-, ˈdɪsˌsɪl-, ˌdaɪsɪˈlæbɪk /

noun

1. grammar a word of two syllables

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Other Word Forms

• dissyllabic adjective

Example Sentences

Of course, Webster allows that it was "formerly often" a dissyllable, and Shakespeare found it handier thus six times out of seven.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus Marie may be three-syllabled as above, or answer to mie as a dissyllable; but vierge is always, I think, dissyllabic, vier-ge, with even stronger accent on the -ge, for the Latin -go.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

Caesar's speech:— She dreamt last night, she saw my statue— No doubt, it should be statua, as in the same age, they more often pronounced 'heroes' as a trisyllable than dissyllable.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The lines are happy in inspiration and finished in form, having only one possible defect, the use of "heralding" as a dissyllable.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

Where we are rightly told that ‘year’ may be a dissyllable.

From The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by Clark, William George