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POLYSYLLABIC WORD

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 Dictionary entry overview: What does polysyllabic word mean? 

POLYSYLLABIC WORD (noun)
  The noun POLYSYLLABIC WORD has 1 sense:

1. a word of more than three syllablesplay

  Familiarity information: POLYSYLLABIC WORD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLYSYLLABIC WORD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A word of more than three syllables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

polysyllabic word; polysyllable

Hypernyms ("polysyllabic word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polysyllabic word"):

jawbreaker (a word that is hard to pronounce)

sesquipedalia; sesquipedalian (a very long word (a foot and a half long))


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