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hexametre

hexametre is the alternative form 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.

Forms of hexametre

pluralhexametres

Questions about hexametre

What is hexametre the alternative form of?
Hexametre is the alternative form of hexameter.

Words near hexametre in the dictionary

  1. hexamethylenetetramines
  2. hexamethylmelamine
  3. hexamethylphosphoramide
  4. hexamethyltetramine
  5. hexametral
  6. hexametre
  7. hexametres
  8. hexametric
  9. hexametrical
  10. hexametrise
  11. hexametrist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hexametre (page history and authors); hexameter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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