trochee

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T0373600 (trō′kē)n.1. A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in season.2. A metrical foot in quantitative verse consisting of a long syllable followed by a short one.

[French trochée, from Latin trochaeus, from Greek trokhaios, from trokhos, a running, from trekhein, to run.]

trochee

(ˈtrəʊkiː) n (Poetry) prosody a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short (¯˘). Compare iamb[C16: via Latin from Greek trokhaios pous, literally: a running foot, from trekhein to run]

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(ˈtroʊ ki)

n. a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. [1580–90; < Latin trochaeus < Greek (poùs) trochaîos running (foot), akin to trochós wheel, tréchein to run]

trochee

a foot of two syllables, the first long or stressed, the second short or unstressed. — trochaic, adj.See also: Verse

trochee

A metrical foot of two syllables, the first accented the second not.

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Noun

trochee - a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllablesmetrical foot, metrical unit, foot - (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

Translations

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trochee

Prosody a metrical foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short (– ⌣)

Trochee

(1) In metric versification, a foot three moras in length, consisting of one long and one short syllable (¯ ˅).

(2) In Russian syllabotonic versification, a two-syllable foot stressed on the first syllable. In trochaic verse the weak syllables are unstressed and the strong syllables may be either unstressed or stressed; the last syllable in a line must be stressed. Examples are Górnye vershíny (“Mountain peaks,” M. Iu. Lermontov; trochaic trimeter), Búria mglóiu nébo króet (“The storm covers the sky with mist,” A. S. Pushkin; trochaic tetrameter), Vykhozhúodín ia na dorógu (“I go out on the road alone,” Lermontov; trochaic pentameter), and Nét na svéte múk sil’née múki slóva (“There are no torments on earth more intense than the torment of the word,” S. Ia. Nadson; trochaic hexameter).

In Russian poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries the most common trochaic meter was the tetrameter. Beginning in the mid-19th century the trochaic pentameter became more widespread; other trochaic meters were rarely used.

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noun a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables

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