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Webster 1913 Edition

Dimeter

Dim′e-ter

,

Adj.

[L.

dimeter

, Gr. [GREEK];

δι-

=

δίσ-

twice + [GREEK] measure.]

Having two poetical measures or meters.

–

Noun.

A verse of two meters.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dimeter

DIMETER

,

Adj.

[L.] Having two poetical measures.

DIMETER

,

Noun.

A verse of two measures.

Definition 2024

dimeter

dimeter

English

Noun

dimeter ‎(plural dimeters)

(poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.
(poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.

See also

(poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

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