See syncopism on Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "syncopism (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "rare"
},
"expansion": "(rare)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "syncope"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
5,
14
]
],
"ref": "1962, African Ecclesiastical Review, volume 4, page 324:",
"text": "Real syncopism is unknown in genuine African music, and beautiful cross rhythms are rarely found in the best jazz music.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The use of syncopation in music."
],
"id": "en-syncopism-en-noun-QzExG3OR",
"links": [
[
"syncopation",
"syncopation"
],
[
"music",
"music"
]
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "24 76",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 90",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "6 94",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The shortening of a name, or creation of a pseudonym, by removing certain letters."
],
"id": "en-syncopism-en-noun-iC8vaZ5T",
"links": [
[
"name",
"name"
],
[
"pseudonym",
"pseudonym"
],
[
"letter",
"letter"
]
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "syncopism"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English rare terms",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "syncopism (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "rare"
},
"expansion": "(rare)",
"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "syncope"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
5,
14
]
],
"ref": "1962, African Ecclesiastical Review, volume 4, page 324:",
"text": "Real syncopism is unknown in genuine African music, and beautiful cross rhythms are rarely found in the best jazz music.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The use of syncopation in music."
],
"links": [
[
"syncopation",
"syncopation"
],
[
"music",
"music"
]
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The shortening of a name, or creation of a pseudonym, by removing certain letters."
],
"links": [
[
"name",
"name"
],
[
"pseudonym",
"pseudonym"
],
[
"letter",
"letter"
]
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "syncopism"
}
Download raw JSONL data for syncopism meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.