Australian English Meaning of anapest

anapest

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Wordnet

anapest (n)

a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables

Webster

anapest (n.)

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests.

A verse composed of such feet.

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anapest

a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllablesA metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, o

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anapaestic => anapaestic, anapaest => anapaest, ananthous => never-flowering, anantherous => anantherous, ananias => Ananias,