Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, two trochees, or a trochaic dipody, regarded as constituting a single compound foot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.
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- noun poetry A
double trochee ; ametrical foot made up of twotrochees .
Etymologies
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Latin ditrochaeus, from Ancient Greek.
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