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/daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/
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- UK
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/ˈdī-ˌsi-lə-bəl/
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- General-American
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daɪˈsɪləbəɫ
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- GB
Noun
A word comprising two syllables.
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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.
Noun
a word having two syllables
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