Definitions for pentameter

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pentameter pen·tam·e·ter

Spelling: [pen-tam-i-ter]

IPA: /pɛnˈtæm ɪ tər/

Pentameter is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 380 anagrams from letters in pentameter (aeeemnprtt).

Definitions for pentameter

noun

1. a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
2. Also called elegiac pentameter. Classical Prosody. a verse consisting of two dactyls, one long syllable, two more dactyls, and another long syllable.
3. unrhymed verse of five iambic feet; heroic verse.

adjective

1. consisting of five metrical feet.

Origin of pentameter

1540-50; Latin pentametrus Greek pentámetros. See penta-, meter²

Examples for pentameter

It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?

The pentameter, instead of being a weaker echo of the hexameter, is the stronger line of the two, and has a weightier movement.

The more natural abest absitque cannot be placed in a pentameter.

"Desilientis aquae" would make a good ending to a pentameter.

If these verses were composed in good Latinity, the first word of the pentameter probably was justitiam.

Among these the Elegiac verse of the ancients (hexameter alternating with pentameter) was attempted by Sidney in his Arcadia.

The pentameter is never used alone, but only in connection with the Hexameter.

The subject of transit must be Olympias, since otherwise the pentameter is without a subject.

For the quadrisyllable ending to the pentameter, see at ii 10 Alcinoo (p 164).

The error was induced by nec at the start of the pentameter.