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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hex•am•e•ter /hɛkˈsæmɪtɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Poetrya line of poetry having six important metrical feet.
See -hexa-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hex•am•e•ter (hek sam′i tər),USA pronunciation [Pros.]n. - 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.
- Poetryany line of verse in six feet, as in English poetry.
adj. - Poetryconsisting of six metrical feet.
- Greek hexámetros of six measures, equivalent. to hexa- hexa- + métr(on) measure + -os adjective, adjectival suffix
- Latin
- 1540–50;
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: hexameter /hɛkˈsæmɪtə/ n - a verse line consisting of six metrical feet
- (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 |