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单词 trisyllable
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Definition of trisyllable in English:

trisyllable

noun trʌɪˈsɪləb(ə)ltraɪˈsɪləbəl
  • A word or metrical foot of three syllables.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
    • Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included.
    • A disyllable consists of two syllables, and a trisyllable of three.
    • A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
    • The signal of the middle syllable of each trisyllable pronunciation is then extracted to make a synthesis unit.

Derivatives

  • trisyllabic

  • adjective trʌɪsɪˈlabɪkˌtraɪsəˈlæbɪk
    • Resolutely accentualist in his outlook, he argued in a series of ‘Letters,’ that trisyllabic feet, whether dactylic or anapaestic, are fully congenial to English, ‘in spite of the Antijacobin’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
      • Treeswifts calls have been described as a squeal, with a few syllables grouped together to form a disyllabic or trisyllabic call.
 
 

Definition of trisyllable in US English:

trisyllable

nountrīˈsiləbəltraɪˈsɪləbəl
  • A word or metrical foot of three syllables.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The signal of the middle syllable of each trisyllable pronunciation is then extracted to make a synthesis unit.
    • A disyllable consists of two syllables, and a trisyllable of three.
    • A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
    • When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
    • Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included.
 
 
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