Polysyllable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Polysyllable \Pol"y*syl`la*ble\, n. [Poly- + syllable.]
     A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables
     than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called
     {monosyllables}, {dissyllables}, and {trisyllables}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  polysyllable
       n : a word of more than three syllables [syn: {polysyllabic word}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "polysyllable":
     antonym, articulation, expression, free form, grandiloquence,
     hard word, homograph, homonym, homophone, jawbreaker, lexeme,
     lexiphanicism, linguistic form, locution, logos, long word,
     metonym, minimum free form, monosyllable, sesquipedalian, syllable,
     synonym, term, usage, utterance, verbalism, verbum, vocable,
     word