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单词 hexameter
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
hex•am•e•ter /hɛkˈsæmɪtɚ/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Poetrya line of poetry having six important metrical feet.
See -hexa-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
hex•am•e•ter  (hek sami tər),USA pronunciation [Pros.]
n. 
  1. Poetrya dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
  2. Poetryany line of verse in six feet, as in English poetry.

adj. 
  1. Poetryconsisting of six metrical feet.
  • Greek hexámetros of six measures, equivalent. to hexa- hexa- + métr(on) measure + -os adjective, adjectival suffix
  • Latin
  • 1540–50;
hex•a•met•ric  (hek′sə metrik),USA pronunciation hex′a•metri•cal, hex•ame•tral, adj. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
hexameter /hɛkˈsæmɪtə/ n
  1. a verse line consisting of six metrical feet
  2. (in Greek and Latin epic poetry) a verse line of six metrical feet, of which the first four are usually dactyls or spondees, the fifth almost always a dactyl, and the sixth a spondee or trochee

hexametric /ˌhɛksəˈmɛtrɪk/, hexˈametral, ˌhexaˈmetrical adj
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