- syllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
--1 is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
--1 is a part of word
--1 has particulars:penult, penultima, penultimate; antepenult, antepenultimate; reduplication; solfa syllable Derived forms: verb syllabicate1, verb syllabize1, verb syllabize2, verb syllabify1