octosyllabic
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɒk.təʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌɔk.təʉ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɑk.toʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
- Rhymes: -æbɪk
Adjective
editoctosyllabic (not comparable)
- Containing eight syllables
- 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination:
- If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
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editcontaining 8 syllables
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