Word Meanings - MONOSYLLABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A word of one syllable.

SYLLABLE
1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
TRISYLLABLE
A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
DISSYLLABLE
A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
QUINQUESYLLABLE
A word of five syllables.
DODECASYLLABLE
A word consisting of twelve syllables.
OCTOSYLLABLE
Octosyllabic.
QUADRISYLLABLE
A word consisting of four syllables. De Quincey.
HENDECASYLLABLE
A metrical line of eleven syllables. J. Warton.
MONOSYLLABLE
A word of one syllable.
SEXISYLLABLE
A word of six syllables.
MULTISYLLABLE
A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.
SEPTISYLLABLE
A word of seven syllables.
POLYSYLLABLE
A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.
TETRASYLLABLE
A word consisting of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
MONOSYLLABLED
Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. Cleveland.