decasyllabic
English
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editdecasyllabic (not comparable)
- Having ten syllables.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[1], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 152:
- The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing.
- Composed of decasyllables.
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edithaving ten syllables
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Noun
editdecasyllabic (plural decasyllabics)
- (mostly plural) A decasyllable.
- an English sonnet written in decasyllabics