Definitions for amphibrach

amphibrach am·phi·brach

Spelling: [am-fuh-brak]
IPA: /ˈæm fəˌbræk/

Amphibrach is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 375 anagrams from letters in amphibrach (aabchhimpr).

Definitions for amphibrach

noun

  1. a trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is short, long, short in quantitative meter, or unstressed, stressed, unstressed in accentual meter. Thus, together is an accentual amphibrach.

Origin of amphibrach

1580-90; Latin amphibrachus Greek amphíbrachys short before and after (amphi- amphi- + brachýs short); cf. amphimacer

Examples for amphibrach

Again, I should say, anapaestic—but this anapaest and amphibrach quarrel is ἄσπονδος.

The amphibrach plays a highly important part in English verse, though it is usual not to mention it at all.

Similarly, the symbol means a trochee; and the symbol means an amphibrach.

But these lines are of the high burlesque kind, and in this stile the amphibrach closes lines with great beauty.

The amphibrach is a foot of three syllables, the first and third short, and the second long.

Similarly, such a word as alighted, in which a strong syllable is situated between two weak ones, may be called an 'amphibrach.'

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