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