Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A word having five syllables.

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Examples

  • The three paradoxers last named and myself have a pentasyllable convention, under which, though we go far beyond civility, we keep within civilization.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

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