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adj. - Having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables.

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Usage examples (17)
  • I once met a female scholar whose disyllabic name included the character nan 男.
  • If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables.
  • Martial V shows the proportion of non-disyllabic endings at 20\% -- the shorter the poem, the more freely they are admitted.
  • The reason is that some of these disyllabic prepositions are used as adverbs, and, when separated from their nouns, give one the impression that they are used as adverbs.
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