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Dissyllable

noun
1.
A word having two syllables.  Synonym: disyllable.






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"Dissyllable" Quotes from Famous Books



... is worth noting that the whole beauty arises from the dexterous placing of the dissyllable "graces," and the trisyllable "entangle," exactly where they ought to be among the monosyllables of the rest. The madrigals "Love guards the roses of thy lips," "My Phillis hath the morning sun," and "Love in my bosom like a bee" ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... in mind that every Athene varies more or less with, and takes colour from, the country and temperament of the writer who is being translated, will not be greatly helped by translating "Athene" and not "Minerva." Besides many readers would pronounce the word as a dissyllable ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler



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