dimeter

English

Etymology

From di- (“two”) +‎ -meter.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪmɪtəɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪmɪtə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

dimeter (countable and uncountable, plural dimeters)

1. (poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.
2. (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)}

Anagrams

• demerit, detemir, merited, mitered, red time, retimed