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anapaest

Noun

∙ Alternative form of anapest Britain

BABYLON ENGLISH
anapaest n.
foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long (Poetry)

WORDNET 2.0
anapaest
Noun
1. a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
(synonym) anapest
(hypernym) metrical foot, foot, metrical unit

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Anapaest
An anapaest (also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one; in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. It may be seen as a reversed dactyl. This word comes from the Greek ανάπαιστος, anápaistos, literally "struck back" (a dactyl reversed), from ana and -paistos, verbal of παίειν, paíein "to strike."
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WIKTIONARY - Yabla

anapaest

Noun

∙ Alternative form of anapest Britain

BABYLON ENGLISH
anapaest n.
foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long (Poetry)

WORDNET 2.0
anapaest
Noun
1. a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
(synonym) anapest
(hypernym) metrical foot, foot, metrical unit

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Anapaest
An anapaest (also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one; in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. It may be seen as a reversed dactyl. This word comes from the Greek ανάπαιστος, anápaistos, literally "struck back" (a dactyl reversed), from ana and -paistos, verbal of παίειν, paíein "to strike."
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