Definition of Syllable

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segment of speech uttered with a single impulse of air; smallest amount of speech or writing
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Syllable Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(v. t.)
To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.
  
(n.)
In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.
  
(n.)
An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses.
  
(n.)
A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
  
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 syllable structure 
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for Vocabulary Exams of KPDS, YDS,UDS (in Turkey); and SAT in America
That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.
JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Sill, Syllaf = n. a component part; a syllable
Silleb = n. a syllable
Sillt = n. an element; a syllable
Unsill = a. of one syllable
Shakespeare Words
sound
WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
(hypernym) language unit, linguistic unit
(hyponym) penult, penultima, penultimate
(part-holonym) word
(derivation) syllabify, syllabicate, syllabize, syllabise
Syllable Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Telecommunication Standard Terms
A character string or a bit string in a word.
Syllable Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

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