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POLYSYLLABIC WORD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A word of more than three syllables

Synonyms:

polysyllabic word; polysyllable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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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