Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A three-syllable word.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A word consisting of three syllables.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A word consisting of three syllables only.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a word having three syllables
Etymologies
- tri- + syllable (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura.”
“Could'st thou not find a trisyllable to express some parts of nature for a collection of which that learned and worthy physician is eminent?”
“Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate.”
“The name is not Iroquois -- yet it may be, too -- a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape.”
“As with Mutineer once, he had dropped his bridle, but there was no use in uttering, as he had, then, the trisyllable which had reduced the horse to order.”
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
“This has all the technical marks of late Elizabethan dramatic blank verse: "vision" as a trisyllable; the redundant syllable in the middle of the line; the colloquial abbreviation of "in the"; not to mention the fanciful vein of the whole passage, which might lead any one unacquainted with Milton to look for this quotation among the dramas of the prime.”
“[52] A trisyllable, as in strictness it ought to be.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trisyllable’.
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Prosody
Your terms and additions are welcome.
headless iamb, tailless trochee, dibrach, disyllable, trisyllable, tetrasyllable, pyrrhus, iamb, trochee, choree, choreus, tribrach and 203 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for trisyllable.
hernesheir "You!, what planet is this?" -- blurted by Dr. McCoy, in a Star Trek television episode. Jan 7, 2009
sionnach Thank God he cleared that up about which planet - people might have gotten awfully confused otherwise. Jan 7, 2009
hernesheir 'I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors." -- Henry David Thoreau Jan 7, 2009
hernesheir cf. mirific Jan 7, 2009