Definitions for spondees

spondees spon·dee

Spelling: [spon-dee]
IPA: /ˈspɒn di/

Spondees is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in spondees (deenopss).

Definitions for spondees

noun

  1. a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .
  2. a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .

Origin of spondees

1350-1400; Middle English sponde Latin spondēus Greek spondeîos, derivative of spondḗ libation

Examples for spondees

But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee ( ) may take the place of the dactyl.

A spondee is a foot of two equally accented syllables; as, mainspring, sea-maid.

“It is a spondee, and I will maintain it,” interrupted a voice on his left hand.

spondee quoted a poem he had once written about Miss Dorothy.

Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables; because the dactyle is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee.

Mr. Fabian kneeled like a dactyle: Mr. Jeremiah kneeled like a spondee, or rather like a molossus.

Now there is only here and there a word in the whole English language that is a spondee.

Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.

There is, in fact, no such thing as a spondee in ordinary speech.

spondee, who is a critic, is seldom out of this fine man's company.

Mr. Fabian kneeled like a dactyle: Mr. Jeremiah kneeled like a spondee, or rather like a molossus.

spondee, who is a critic, is seldom out of this fine man's company.

Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.

There is, in fact, no such thing as a spondee in ordinary speech.

Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables; because the dactyle is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee.

“It is a spondee, and I will maintain it,” interrupted a voice on his left hand.

spondee quoted a poem he had once written about Miss Dorothy.

Now there is only here and there a word in the whole English language that is a spondee.

A spondee is a foot of two equally accented syllables; as, mainspring, sea-maid.

But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee ( ) may take the place of the dactyl.

Word Value for spondees
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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