Definitions for trochee

trochee tro·chee

Spelling: [troh-kee]
IPA: /ˈtroʊ ki/

Trochee is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in trochee (ceehort).

Definitions for trochee

noun

  1. a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter. Symbol: .

Origin of trochee

1580-90; Latin trochaeus Greek (poùs), trochaîos running (foot), equivalent to troch- (variant stem of tréchein to run) + -aios adj. suffix

Examples for trochee

The foot that consists of two syllables, the first of which is accented, is called a trochee.

He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.

Antispast, an′ti-spast, n. in metre, a foot composed of an iambus and a trochee.

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

The hexameter is a six-foot catalectic verse theoretically consisting of five successive dactyls and a trochee.

It will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic.

In the iambic and trochaic metres other feet are often substituted for the iambus and the trochee, but without change of rhythm.

The meter is iambic pentameter; but the first foot of the second line is a trochee, and emphasizes thoughts with fine effect.

The trochee seems in general to indicate an outpouring of emotion or sudden burst of feeling too strong for control.

The trochee, which has the first syllable accented, and the last unaccented: as, Ynke dodl.

Word Value for trochee
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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