Found 2 items, similar to Trochee.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: trochee
trochee
n : a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Trochee
Trochee
\Tro"chee\, n. [L. trochaeus, Gr. ? (sc.?), from ?
running, from ? to run. Cf.
Troche,
Truck a wheel.]
(Pros.)
A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short,
as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the
second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
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