any of the units into which a word is divided, containing a vowel sound and usually one or more consonants音节- a word with two syllables双音节单词
- a two-syllable word双音节单词
- ‘Potato’ is stressed on the second syllable.potato 一词的重音在第二个音节上。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- She split the word up into syllables so that he could have a go at spelling it.她把这个词分成音节，以便他能试着把它拼写出来。
- the final syllable of ‘Oregon’Oregon 的末尾音节
- words that have three or more syllables有 3 个或 3 个以上音节的单词
Topics Languagea2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + syllablephrasesphrases- stress falls on a syllable
- stress is on a syllable
- a word of one, two, etc. syllables
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See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French sillabe, via Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- ‘together’ + lambanein ‘take’.