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TROCHEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trochee mean?
• TROCHEE (noun)
The noun TROCHEE has 1 sense:
1. a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
Familiarity information: TROCHEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("trochee" is a kind of...):
foot; metrical foot; metrical unit ((prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm)
Derivation:
trochaic (of or consisting of trochees)
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