"polysyllable" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982, Donald Hall, To Read Poetry, page 83:",
          "text": "For instance, words can differ in length, and we can rhyme a monosyllable with a polysyllable, like tracks with haversacks.",
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          "ref": "1992, Samuel Elmo Martin, Reference Grammar of Korean:",
          "text": "In the Phyengan dialect, wuy developed into wi but at the end of a polysyllable it often dropped the -y to become wu (ibid): Tang-nakwu = Tang-nakwi 'donkey'",
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          "text": "The third syllable of provided is ed, and therefore the verb is not a polysyllable.",
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          "roman": "polysýllavi léxi",
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          "word": "polisillabo"
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          "sense": "a word with more than two syllables",
          "word": "yl-heeley"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a word with more than two syllables",
          "word": "çok heceli"
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      "word": "yl-heeley"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a word with more than two syllables",
      "word": "çok heceli"
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