dimeter

[ dim-i-ter ]

/ ˈdɪm ɪ tər /

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noun Prosody.

a verse or line of two measures or feet, as He is gone on the mountain,/He is lost to the forest.

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Origin of dimeter

1580–90; <Late Latin dimeter<Greek dímetros of two measures, a dimeter, equivalent to di-di-¹ + -metros, adj. derivative of métronmeter¹

Words nearby dimeter

dimer, dimercaprol, dimerize, dimerous, dime store, dimeter, dimethoate, dimethoxymethane, dimethyl, dimethylanthranilate, dimethylbenzene

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How to use dimeter in a sentence

The hind-men responded with a sing-song trochaic dimeter which sounded like a long-drawn-out monosyllable.
The Unveiling of Lhasa|Edmund Candler
There are in both three series of iambuses—the dimeter, the cataleptic trimeter, and the acataleptic.
Myth and Science|Tito Vignoli
Their rhyme, if not quite pure, is abundant and catching, and their nearest metrical affinity would be a trochaic dimeter.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
He wrote two famous hymns, one of them in the popular trochaic tetrameter, the other in the equally simple iambic dimeter.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor

This verse is therefore the almost exact equivalent of the Greek iambic dimeter.
A History of Sanskrit Literature|Arthur A. MacDonell

British Dictionary definitions for dimeter

dimeter

/ (ˈdɪmɪtə) /

noun

prosody a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet or a verse written in this metre

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