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Definition of tetrasyllable in English: tetrasyllablenoun ˈtɛtrəsɪləb(ə)l A word of four syllables. Example sentencesExamples - Since the "Pater noster" text contains no penult-accented tetrasyllables, only results for antepenult-accented tetrasyllables can be presented, which Figure 22 does.
- ‘One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable,’ Spindrift begins.
- Banville has likewise tried his hand at short strophes composed entirely of tetrasyllables, as have also Richepin and Verlaine.
Derivatives adjectivetɛtrəsɪˈlabɪk Full stress falls on the first syllable of a word, thus obliterating the Latin stress on the penultimate or antepenultimate in trisyllabic, tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic words. Example sentencesExamples - The primary accented syllables in monomorphemic trisyllabic and tetrasyllabic Thai words are the final syllables.
- Beginning in the Wei and Jin, Shijing-style tetrasyllabic poems gradually fell into decline and the popular stele-memorial inscription then became the primary vehicle for tetrasyllabic writings.
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