| 单词 | anapest |
| 释义 | anapest (once / 46717 pages) n WORD FAMILY anapest: anapestic, anapests USAGE EXAMPLESIt was a metrically auspicious birth date — the spondee “ONE, TEN” resounding like slaps on a baby’s bottom, the anapest “twenty-EIGHT” hurtling toward the future. New York Times(Feb 15, 2015) “Electron” was the word she settled on to describe herself, emphasizing the last syllable, the word drawn out into a Gallic anapest. New York Times(May 21, 2014) Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) n a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables Syn|Hyper anapaest foot, metrical foot, metrical unit (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
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