Thesaurus: spondee
A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
Related headwords
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Definitions
- n. A word/poetic">poetic word/foot">foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
- n. a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
- A word/poetic">poetic word/foot">foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
- A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin wordleges.
- n. a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables