Synonyms for syllable
ˈsɪl ə bəlsyl·la·ble

Princeton's WordNet

1. syllablenoun

   a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme

   "the word `pocket' has two syllables"

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1. • Language Unit

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1. List of paraphrases for "syllable":

   yi, ethiopian, syilable, ethiopic, jing

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1. Henry David Thoreau:

   I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

2. Louis Aragon:

   The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

3. Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_:

   There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

4. Ed Asner:

   It all blends into each other, ’Rich Man, Poor Man’ was an epiphany for me. ‘Elf’ was a delight. ‘Up’ was an unbelievable stroke. I think it ranks up at the top for Pixar. and it certainly was a wonderful shot in my arm and butt as to my career, but ‘Elf’ and ‘Up,’ I am down to single syllable names these days.

5. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.