syllables Definition

a unit of spoken language that is next bigger than a speech sound and consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or of a syllabic consonant alone or of either with one or more consonant sounds preceding or following

one or more letters (such as syl, la, and ble) in a word (such as syllable) usually set off from the rest of the word by a centered dot or a hyphen and roughly corresponding to the syllables of spoken language and treated as helps to pronunciation or as guides to placing hyphens at the end of a line

the smallest conceivable expression or unit of something : jot

to give a number or arrangement of syllables to (a word or verse)

to express or utter in or as if in syllables

the syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, used in singing the tones of the scale

a syllable ended by a vowel or diphthong