Synonyms for "trochee" (77 found)

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Closest matches (16)

accentaccentuationalexandrineamphibrachamphimaceranacrusisanapestantispastarsisbacchiusbeatcadencecaesuracatalexischloriambchloriambus

Strong matches (23)

coloncounterpointcreticdactyldactylic hexameterdiaeresisdimeterdipodydochmiacelegiacelegiac coupletelegiac pentameteremphasisepitritefeminine caesurafootheptameterheptapodyheroic couplethexameter

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hexapodyiambiambic

Related words (38)

iambic pentameterictusionicjingleliltmasculine caesurameasuremetermetrical accentmetrical footmetrical groupmetrical unitmetronmolossusmoramovementnumberspaeonpentameterpentapody

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periodproceleusmaticpyrrhicquantityrhythmspondeesprung rhythmstressswingsyzygytetrametertetrapodytetrasemethesistribrachtrimetertripodytriseme

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

3 entries

footmetrical footmetrical unit

Related terms

2 entries

iambtrochaic

is a

1 entries

metrical foot

related to

6 entries

footiambmetricalsyllabletrochaicverse

Translations

24 translations across 20 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries

• τροχαῖος noun (a metrical foot)

Catalan

1 entries

• troqueu noun (a metrical foot)

Czech

1 entries

• trochej noun (a metrical foot)

Danish

1 entries

• trokæ noun (a metrical foot)

Dutch

2 entries

• trochee noun (a metrical foot)
• trocheus noun (a metrical foot)

Esperanto

2 entries

• trokeo noun (a metrical foot)
• troĥeo noun (a metrical foot)

Faroese

1 entries

• rættur tvíliður noun (a metrical foot)

Finnish

1 entries

• trokee noun (a metrical foot)

French

1 entries

• trochée noun (a metrical foot)

Galician

1 entries

• troqueo noun (a metrical foot)

German

1 entries

• Trochäus noun (a metrical foot)

Greek

1 entries

• τροχαίος noun (a metrical foot)

Hungarian

1 entries

• trocheus noun (a metrical foot)

Ido

1 entries

• trokeo noun (a metrical foot)

Polish

1 entries

• trochej noun (a metrical foot)

Portuguese

2 entries

• coreu noun (a metrical foot)
• troqueu noun (a metrical foot)

Russian

2 entries

• трохе́й noun (a metrical foot)
• хоре́й noun (a metrical foot)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

• tròhēj noun (a metrical foot)

Spanish

1 entries

• troqueo noun (a metrical foot)

Swedish

1 entries

• troké noun (a metrical foot)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

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‘He made us read James Fenton on the genius of the trochee.’

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