dimeter

English

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪmɪtəɹ/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪmɪtə(ɹ)/
Rhymes: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

dimeter (plural dimeters)

(poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.
(poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.

See also

(poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

demerit, detemir, merited, mitered, red time, retimed

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