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Definition of Monosyllables
1. monosyllable [n] - See also: monosyllable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monosyllables
Literary usage of Monosyllables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"Shortening of monosyllables. The connexion of all these cases of shortening with
the absence of accent is seen from the fact that monosyllabic words are as ..."
2. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"ACCENT ON monosyllables. $ 148. monosyllables standing alone have no accent.
In sentences they sometimes take the accent, and sometimes do not take it, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1811)
"A Dissertation on the Characters and Sounds of the Chinese Language; including
Tables of the Elementary Characters, and of the Chinese monosyllables. ..."
4. A Plea for Phoenetic Spelling: Or, The Necessity of Orthographic Reform by Alexander John Ellis (1848)
"The proportionate frequency of these combinations, at least of as many of them
as are to be found in our very numerous monosyllables, may be obtained from ..."
5. The Old and Middle English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1878)
"monosyllables are no disadvantage; with them Shakespere and Milton produce most
noble effects. The obnoxious words swarm in our version of Isaiah, ..."
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