elephants
nounHow many syllables in elephants?
There are 3 syllables in the word elephants.How to pronounce elephants:
Definition of elephants:
- elephants (noun):
- a relatively small-eared mammal (elephas maximus) of forests of southeastern asia
- a tall, large-eared mammal (loxodonta africana) of tropical africa that is sometimes considered to comprise two separate species (l. africana of sub-saharan savannas and l. cyclotis of central and western rainforests)
- a thickset, usually extremely large, nearly hairless, herbivorous mammal (family elephantidae, the elephant family) that has a snout elongated into a muscular trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed especially in the male into long ivory tusks
Synonyms for elephants:
amazons
behemoths
blockbusters
colossi
dinosaurs
dreadnoughts
elephant
giants
goliaths
jumbos
leviathans
mammoths
mastodons
monsters
titans
whales
whoppers
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- summary's
- elephant
- important
- summary
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- recommand
- ambivert
- debenture
- biotic
- recipient
- devoted
- reconcile
- merrily
- invention
- cuarto
- depression
- entity
- wherever
- untidy
- September
- bronchitis
- numerous
- creative
- stochastic
- seminar
- Runyonesque
- resident
- annual
- tradition
- octagon
- eavesdrop
- easiness
- consecrate
- cerulean
- caracal
- amusing
- sixty-nine
- stabilize
- guerrilla
- convection
- chauvinist
- arena
- emotion
- brilliant
- sequence
- rebuttal
- chaperone
- specialized
- quisquous
- Minerva
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