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anapest
or ··貹
[ an-uh-pest ]
noun
Prosody.
- a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce.
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Other yvlog Forms
- a·t a·貹t adjective
- a·t·· a·貹t·· adverb
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Example Sentences
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Not that one needs to know an anapest from a trochee to enjoy the genre.
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Five iambs and an anapest was the beat he tramped to now.
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It was a metrically auspicious birth date — the spondee “ONE, TEN” resounding like slaps on a baby’s bottom, the anapest “twenty-EIGHT” hurtling toward the future.
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“Electron” was the word she settled on to describe herself, emphasizing the last syllable, the word drawn out into a Gallic anapest.
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Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.
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