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单词 long measure
释义

long measure


noun

Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
linear measure.

Origin of long measure

First recorded in 1710–20

Words nearby long measure

long list, long-lived, Long March, long mark, Longmeadow, long measure, long metre, Longmont, long moss, long muscle of head, long muscle of neck
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British Dictionary definitions for long measure

long measure

noun

another name for linear measure
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