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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: anapest
anapest
n : a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed
syllables [syn:
anapaest]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Anapest
Anapest
\An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an anapest, i.e.,
a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; ? back
+ ? to strike.]
1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the
first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented
([crescent] [crescent] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In
Latin d[e^]-[i^]-t[=a]s, and in English in-ter-vene", are
examples of anapests.
[1913 Webster]
2. A verse composed of such feet.
[1913 Webster]
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