Meanings
plural disyllables · alternative dissyllable
- A word comprising two syllables.
1 more example
He felt as if the play itself penetrated him with the naked elbow of his neighbour, a great stripped, handsome, red-haired lady, who conversed with a gentleman on her other side in stray dissyllables which had for his ear, in the oddest way in the world, so much sound that he wondered they hadn't more sense; and he recognised by the same law, beyond the footlights, what he was pleased to take for the very flush of English life.
1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLCSynonyms: duosyllable
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA word comprising two syllables.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
- Proto-Hellenic*dwi-
- Ancient Greekδῐ- (dĭ-)
- Latindi-
- Englishdi-
- Englishsyllable
- Englishdisyllable
Translations
German zweisilbiges Wort, Zweisilber
- zweisilbiges Worta word comprising two syllables
- Zweisilbera word comprising two syllables
- Zweisilblera word comprising two syllables
- Disyllabuma word comprising two syllables
- Dissyllabuma word comprising two syllables
Greek δισύλλαβο
- δισύλλαβο (disýllavo)a word comprising two syllables
Irish déshiollach
- déshiollacha word comprising two syllables
Italian bisillabo, disillabo
- bisillaboa word comprising two syllables
- disillaboa word comprising two syllables
Scottish Gaelic dà-shioladh
- dà-shioladha word comprising two syllables
Swedish tvåstaving
- tvåstavinga word comprising two syllables
Cite this entry
disyllable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disyllable
“disyllable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disyllable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disyllable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disyllable.
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