trisyllable
noun
a word of three syllables, as pendulum.
trisyllabic
-
a word derived from
trisyllable.
Example Sentences
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The omission of one of the two light syllables from the foot in trisyllabic verse is so common as to make it difficult to find pure anapestic or dactylic verse in English.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Its metre is ae freslige—seven-syllable lines in a quatrain, rhyming abab: a being trisyllabic, b dissyllabic rhymes.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by R.A. Stewart MacAlister
Pray discuss their works, or merits, seriatim, as the judges call it; for I feel overwhelmed at the stringing together of such trisyllabic names.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
An example: they say that in conversation old Bardianna dealt in nothing but trisyllabic sentences.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
For several mornings in succession I was greeted on waking by the trisyllabic minor whistle of a chickadee, who piped again and again not far from my window.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
