Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- adjective Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
- adjective Linguistics Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle (rĭd′l), the two syllabic sounds are the (ĭ) and the (l).
- adjective Of or being a form of verse based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
- noun A syllabic sound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to or consisting of a syllable or syllables: as, a syllabic accent; a syllabic augment.
- Representing syllables instead of single sounds: said of an alphabetical sign, or of an alphabet or mode of writing: also used substantively.
- Pronounced syllable by syllable; of elaborate distinctness.
- noun See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables.
- adjective Consisting of a syllable or syllables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of a
syllable or syllables. - adjective
Pronounced with every syllable distinct. - adjective linguistics Designating a
sound that is or can be the mostsonorant segment of a syllable, as avowel or aresonant . In the word riddle (rĭd'l), the two syllabic sounds are the (i˘) and the (l). - adjective Of, or being a form of
verse , based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement ofaccents orquantities . - noun linguistics A syllabic sound.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
- adjective of or relating to syllables
- adjective consisting of or using a syllabary
- adjective consisting of a syllable or syllables
- adjective (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Space is provided on the disc for the name of the individual in syllabic characters.
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CV-C was called syllabic and final, CV-V was handled by a mark so an analytic feature.
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Over these difficulties Mr Evans pondered and worked and, after any amount of experimenting and failure, succeeded in inventing and perfecting that is known as the syllabic characters.
On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians Egerton Ryerson Young 1874
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The invention of what are known as the syllabic characters was undoubtedly Mr. Evans 'greatest work, and to his unaided genius belongs the honour of devising and then perfecting this alphabet which has been such a blessing to thousands of Cree Indians.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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Change from one-syllabic to multi-syllabic rhymes with a single click and see a wealth of near rhymes appear by simply decreasing the similarity in sound.
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010
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Change from one-syllabic to multi-syllabic rhymes with a single click and see a wealth of near rhymes appear by simply decreasing the similarity in sound.
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A Manual of Pronunciation For Practical Use in Schools and Families Otis Ashmore
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When the term "syllabic" is used for writing systems it doesn't have to mean that the whole syllable is represented every time but simply that the basic unit of representation must be a pronounceable syllable not an abstract phoneme.
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Japanese, which is syllabic, meaning that each symbol represents (or approximates) a syllable, combining to form words.
Lightly Toasted 2010
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"syllabic" implies, is that each character is a syllable, and so there is really no spelling in the language.
Three Boys in the Wild North Land Egerton Ryerson Young 1874
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