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hexameters

hexameters is the plural of hexameter.

Meaning of hexameter

Noun

hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)

  1. (countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet.
    • The date of composition is pretty certainly about 1590, a date suggested by the burlesque hexameters of Huanebango.1908, Walter Wilson Greg, “[Preface]”, in G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wives Tale, 1595, [Oxford, Oxfordshire]: […] [F]or the Malone Society by Horace Hart […], at the Oxford University Press, published...
  2. (uncountable) A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.

Questions about hexameters

What is hexameters the plural of?
Hexameters is the plural of hexameter.

Words near hexameters in the dictionary

  1. hexamerous
  2. hexamers
  3. hexametaphosphate
  4. hexametaphosphates
  5. hexameter
  6. hexameters
  7. hexamethonium
  8. hexamethonium bromide
  9. hexamethoniums
  10. hexamethoxide
  11. hexamethoxides

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