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    METRICAL FOOT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythmplay

    Synonyms:

    foot; metrical foot; metrical unit

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("metrical foot" is a kind of...):

    beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)

    Domain category:

    metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metrical foot"):

    dactyl (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables)

    iamb; iambus (a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables)

    anapaest; anapest (a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables)

    amphibrach (a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., 'remember'))

    trochee (a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables)

    spondee (a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables)

    dibrach; pyrrhic (a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables)

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