syllabic
Britishadjective
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of or relating to syllables or the division of a word into syllables
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denoting a kind of verse line based on a specific number of syllables rather than being regulated by stresses or quantities
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(of a consonant) constituting a syllable
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(of plainsong and similar chanting) having each syllable sung to a different note
noun
Other Word Forms
- syllabically adverb
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Example Sentences
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I’ll say it again: They must be 5-7-5 in syllabic style.
From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2022
The Americas, in turn, received the wheel, the horse, sugar, wheat, livestock, a syllabic script and, of course, rice.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
The Phoenician mastery of sailing and the use of the syllabic alphabet were both boons to trade.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
She liked to tell of her initial resistance to the nonsense syllabic refrain “ba-dee-yah” that White repeated at various points while they were working up the number.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2019
About two dozen of his Cherokee syllabic signs were taken directly from those letters, though of course with completely changed meanings, since Sequoyah did not know the English meanings.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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