1. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
   - anapest [N. Amer]

Derived forms: anapaests

See also: anapaestic [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: foot, metrical foot, metrical unit

Encyclopedia: Anapaest

• first moment
• first mortgage
• first name
• First Nation
• First Nations
• first of all
• First of May
• First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
• first off
• first offender
• first period
• first person
• first principle
• first quarter
• first reading
• first rudiment
• first sacker
• first sergeant
• First State
• first step
• first stomach
• first strike
• first team
• first trimester
• First Vatican Council