'Trochee' definitions:
Definition of 'trochee'
(from WordNet)
noun
A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
Definition of 'Trochee'
From: GCIDE
- Trochee \Tro"chee\, n. [L. trochaeus, Gr. ? (sc.?), from ? running, from ? to run. Cf. Troche, Truck a wheel.] (Pros.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trochee'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accent,
- accentuation,
- Alexandrine,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- 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