noun
- a word having two syllables
Usage: linguistics
Examples
- The word ‘happy’ is a disyllable.
- Students practiced identifying disyllables in their poetry unit.
- Most disyllables have stress on either the first or second syllable.
- The teacher asked the class to find disyllables in the paragraph.
- Words like ‘water’ and ‘pencil’ are common disyllables.
- The poem contained mostly disyllables and monosyllables.