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11 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
noun a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
noun music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
originFrom syncopate + -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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