Definitions for pentameters

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pentameters pen·tam·e·ter

Spelling: [pen-tam-i-ter]

IPA: /pɛnˈtæm ɪ tər/

Pentameters is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 841 anagrams from letters in pentameters (aeeemnprstt).

Definitions for pentameters

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 pentameters

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

Examples for pentameters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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