EGAVE

hexameter

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A line in a poem having six metrical feet.
  2. noun A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.

Similar words

dactylic hexametre heptameter hexapody pentameter octameter tetrameter hendecameter pentametre dimeter

Often followed by

verse and line is lines in verses of poem

Word family

hexameters

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