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trimetre

trimetre is the alternative form of trimeter.

Meaning of trimeter

Noun

trimeter (plural trimeters)

  1. A line in a poem having three metrical feet.
  2. a poetic metre in which each line has three feet.
    • All the rest of Aeschylus’ significant innovations are as nothing in comparison, […] the installation of the iambic trimeter as the appropriate verse of dialogue.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 20

Forms of trimetre

pluraltrimetres

Questions about trimetre

What is trimetre the alternative form of?
Trimetre is the alternative form of trimeter.

Words near trimetre in the dictionary

  1. trimethyltelluronium
  2. trimethyltin
  3. trimethyltransferase
  4. trimethyltransferases
  5. trimetozine
  6. trimetre
  7. trimetres
  8. trimetrexate
  9. trimetric
  10. trimetrical
  11. trimetrogon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trimetre (page history and authors); trimeter (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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