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Definition of "dimeter" [dim•e•ter]

  • A line of verse consisting of two metrical feet. (noun)
  • A line of verse consisting of two measures of two feet each, especially one in iambic, trochaic, or anapestic meter in classical prosody. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "dimeter" in a sentence
  • "Written by Coelius Sedulius d c 450 in iambic dimeter."
  • "This twelfth poem or hymn contains 52 iambic dimeter strophes, and an irregular selection from its 208 lines has furnished four hymns to the Roman Breviary, all of which conclude with the usual Marian doxology "Jesu tibi sit gloria" etc., not composed by Prudentius, slightly varied to make the doxology appropriate for the several feasts employing the hymns."
  • "Because the fact is, when we read "The Cat in the Hat," we are not thinking anapestic dimeter, we are not marveling at the ease with which Seuss manipulates this first-grade vocabulary list."