English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory"
of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; "pyrrhic verses"
of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; "pyrrhic dance movements"
uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken"