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ALEXANDRINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Alexandrine mean?
• ALEXANDRINE (noun)
The noun ALEXANDRINE has 1 sense:
1. (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
Familiarity information: ALEXANDRINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Alexandrine" is a kind of...):
line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)
Domain category:
metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)
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