Alexandrine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A line of English verse composed in iambic hexameter, usually with a caesura after the third foot.
  • n. A line of French verse consisting of 12 syllables with a caesura usually falling after the sixth syllable.
  • adj. Characterized by or composed in either of these meters.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
  • n. An Alexandrine parrot or parakeet.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
  • n. A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as Alexandrian, 1.
  • n. In prosody, an iambic hexapody, or series of six iambic feet.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    line of poetry    line of verse   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Alexandrian   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    11-syllable    blank    octosyllabic    Saturnian    kilo-   
     
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