a (linguistics) Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle (rĭd'l), the two syllabic sounds are the (i˘) and the (l).
a Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantity|quantities.