A syllable is a single beat of sound in a word. Poets count syllables to shape meter, line length, and patterns such as haiku or iambic pentameter. A word's spelling does not always match its syllables, so poets pay attention to how a word sounds when spoken aloud.
It is a unit of speech sounds or a unit of pronunciation making up a word. For example, the word 'badger' consists of two syllables 'bad' and 'ger'. In English, syllables can be defined as either stressed (long) or unstressed (short). See meter. Syllables are ways to split words into speech sounds. For example, the word monkey is composed of two syllables: mon and key. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus or vowel with optional opening and closing consonants: like the word man.
A unit of pronunciation making up a word. For example, the word 'badger' consists of two syllables 'bad' and 'ger'. In English, syllables can be defined as either stressed (long) or unstressed (short). See meter.
Example
Silver rain on roofs
Morning wakes the quiet street
Shoes splash through the hush
[n] a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"