syllable(n = noun.communication) - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
is a part of word
has particulars: ultima, penult, penultima, penultimate, antepenult, antepenultima, antepenultimate, reduplication, solfa syllable
Derived forms adjective syllabic₄, adjective syllabic₁, verb syllabicate₁, verb syllabify₁, verb syllabize₂, verb syllabize₁

1.  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 reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, 1913 Webster]

2.  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. [1913 Webster]
"Withouten vice [i. e. mistake] of syllable or letter." [1913 Webster]

3.  A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle. [1913 Webster]
"Before any syllable of the law of God was written." [1913 Webster]
"Who dare speak
One syllable against him?" [1913 Webster]

   To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate. Milton. [1913 Webster]

syllable, n. & v.
--n.
1 a unit of pronunciation uttered without interruption, forming the whole or a part of a word and usu. having one vowel sound often with a consonant or consonants before or after: there are two syllables in water and three in inferno.
2 a character or characters representing a syllable.
3 (usu. with neg.) the least amount of speech or writing (did not utter a syllable).
--v.tr. pronounce by syllables; articulate distinctly.

Idiom:
in words of one syllable expressed plainly or bluntly.

Derivative:
syllabled adj. (also in comb.).

Etymology:
ME f. AF sillable f. OF sillabe f. L syllaba f. Gk sullabe (as SYN-, lambano take)

N  letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.

solfa syllable, syllable structure