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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Metrical feet
EN
anapest  anapaest
EN
A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables WordNet 3.0
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A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An anapaest is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. Wikipedia
Metrical foot Wikidata
In qualitative metre, a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two unstressed and one stressed (e.g., the word "interrupt"). Wiktionary
Metrical foot. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
metrical foot
PART OF
anapestic tetrameter
anapestic dimeter
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Encyclopedic Lexicon
OPPOSITE OF
dactyl
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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anapest, anapaest
Wikipedia
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anapaest
Wikidata
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anapaest
Wiktionary
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anapest
Wikipedia Redirections
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anapaestic, Anapaestus, anapest, anapestic, Anapestic verse, Anapæst, Antidactylus
Wikidata Alias
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anapest, antidactylus, ◡◡–

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