duosyllable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]duosyllable (plural duosyllables)
- A word containing two syllables.
- 1825, Benjamin Disraeli, Lawyers and Legislators[1], page 43:
- To this minute account we might perhaps merely answer with laconic gravity, "Suppose," for on this magic duosyllable does the whole tale of gorgeous fortune and unprecedented gullibility depend.
- 2015 July 11, Geoff Dyer, “Prim though its traditions may be, Wimbledon is right to defend them. Especially against Nick Kyrgios”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Martin Amis famously saw off the cult of personality in tennis when he defined it as “an exact synonym of a seven-letter duosyllable starting with ‘a’, ending with ‘e’ (and also featuring, in order of appearance, an ‘ss’, an ‘h’, an ‘o’ and ‘l’)”.
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- monosyllable
- trisyllable
- tetrasyllable
- pentasyllable
- sexisyllable
- heptasyllable
- octosyllable
- enneasyllable
- decasyllable
- endecasyllable
- dodecasyllable
- polysyllable