any of the units into which a word is divided, containing a vowel sound and usually one or more consonants 音节 a word with two syllables 双音节单词 a two-syllable word 双音节单词 ‘Potato’ is stressed on the second syllable. potato 一词的重音在第二个音节上。
Extra ExamplesTopics Languagea2She split the word up into syllables so that he could have a go at spelling it. 她把这个词分成音节,以便他能试着把它拼写出来。 the final syllable of ‘Oregon’ Oregon 的末尾音节 words that have three or more syllables 有 3 个或 3 个以上音节的单词
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- third
- …
- consist of
- contain
- have
- …
- syllable in
- syllable of
- stress falls on a syllable
- stress is on a syllable
- a word of one, two, etc. syllables
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French alteration of Old French sillabe, via Latin from Greek sullabē, from sun- ‘together’ + lambanein ‘take’.