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

Anagrams

demerit, detemir, merited, mitered, retimed

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