trimeter

noun

Definition of trimeternext
as in tetrameter

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Recent Examples of trimeter Especially after a late first trimeter loss, but also possibly beneficial after early loss. — Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 29 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trimeter
  1. hexameter
  2. pentameter
  3. movement
Noun
  • At a rate of roughly one verse per minute, Clark’s invention could compose striking Latin hexameters.
    — Laurent Dubreuil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • On the other, the Satires and Epistles, loose, talky poems written, like the Ars, in dactylic hexameter.
    — Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
Definition of hexameter
Noun
  • The dialogue is both realist, full of the ejaculations and repetitions that characterize human speech, and poetic, with only the occasional anapest interrupting the poem’s iambic pentameter.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Putting Vice and the Bard in the same sentence sounds sacrilegious, but the movie paints Lynne Cheney as a Lady MacBeth type and requires Adams to recite iambic pentameter about Dick’s capacity to usurp some of George W. Bush’s authority.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of pentameter
Noun
  • Those stars keep using those ball reversals and creating movement, and that’s where this entire LSU team changes.
    — Brody Miller, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Shaw is the current board president at Chino Valley Unified School District in San Bernardino County and a figurehead of the California parents’ rights movement.
    — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2025
Definition of movement

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