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Definition of "trisyllable" [tri•syl•la•ble]

  • A three-syllable word. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "trisyllable" in a sentence
  • "Metrically it represents one short and two long quantities (U — —), forming in Latin a trisyllable foot, called"
  • "It gives them no direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable."
  • "Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain."
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