Anapest

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anapest \An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an anapest, i.e.,
     a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; 'ana`
     back + ? to strike.]
     1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the
        first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented
        ([crescent] [crescent] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In


        Latin d[e^]-[i^]-t[=a]s, and in English
        in-ter-vene[bprime], are examples of anapests.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A verse composed of such feet.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  anapest
       n : a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed
           syllables [syn: {anapaest}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "anapest":
     Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer,
     anacrusis, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura,
     catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic,
     dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac,
     elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite,
     feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet,
     hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic,
     jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent,
     metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus,
     mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period,
     proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm,
     stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis,
     tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee