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• n  a word or utterance of one syllable

• He never chooses a monosyllable when a polysyllable will do.
• Chorus the enlightened mastodons of the monosyllable: "It's fun to think.
• As a governor from the Deep South, not even a whispered monosyllable as to his views on segregation.

• monosyllabic word

Quotes

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• Christopher Ricks in Boston Globe (registration)
  Of the line "Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed," Ricks writes: "He sings the word `bed' king-sizedly. It's not a monosyllable when he signs it, something happens to it."