Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POL'Y-SYL-LA-BLE
POL-Y-SYL-LAB'IC, or POL-Y-SYL-LAB'IC-ALPOL-Y-SYN'DE-TON
POL'Y-SYL-LA-BLE, n. [Gr. πολυς, many, and συλλαβη, a syllable.]
A word of many syllables, that is, consisting of more syllables than three, for words of a less number than four are called monosyllables, dissyllables and trisyllables. – Encyc.
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