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
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I’ll say it again: They must be 5-7-5 in syllabic style.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022
Her writing is diaristic in the sense that it doesn’t always hew to a clean syllabic structure — sometimes she’s cramming words to make them fit, and sometimes she’s lingering over them as if humbled.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 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
He initially devised 200 syllabic signs and gradually reduced them to 85, most of them for combinations of one consonant and one vowel.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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