METRICAL UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metrical unit mean? 

• METRICAL UNIT (noun)
  The noun METRICAL UNIT has 1 sense:

1. (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

  Familiarity information: METRICAL UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METRICAL UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

foot; metrical foot; metrical unit

Hypernyms ("metrical unit" is a kind of...):

beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)

Domain category:

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metrical unit"):

dactyl (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables)

iamb; iambus (a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables)

anapaest; anapest (a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables)

amphibrach (a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., 'remember'))

trochee (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables)

spondee (a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables)

dibrach; pyrrhic (a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables)