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elegiacs

elegiacs is the plural of elegiac.

Meaning of elegiac

Noun

elegiac (plural elegiacs)

  1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
    • His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare, 2nd edition, page 385

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Questions about elegiacs

What is elegiacs the plural of?
Elegiacs is the plural of elegiac.

Words near elegiacs in the dictionary

  1. elegiac pentameter
  2. elegiacal
  3. elegiacally
  4. elegiack
  5. elegiacks
  6. elegiacs
  7. elegiast
  8. elegiasts
  9. elegies
  10. elegiographer
  11. elegiographers

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