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monometer

[ muh-nom-i-ter ]

noun

, Prosody.
  1. a line of verse of one measure or foot.


monometer

/ ˌmɒnəʊˈmɛtrɪkəl; mɒˈnɒmɪtə /

noun

  1. prosody a line of verse consisting of one metrical foot
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • monometrical, adjective
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Other Words From

  • mon·o·met·ri·cal [mon-, uh, -, me, -tri-k, uh, l], mono·metric adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of monometer1

1840–50; < Late Latin: composed in one meter < Greek monómetros, equivalent to mono- mono- + métr ( on ) meter 2 + -os adj. suffix
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Example Sentences

A line made of one foot is called monometer.

Monometer, dimeter, and trimeter are not often used for a whole stanza; but they are frequently found in a stanza, introducing variety into it.

Milton, John, quotations from, 241, 245, 248.Minor term, 129.Monometer,

In like manner we have trochaic monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, and hexameter.

A verse consisting of a single dactyl is thus dactylic monometer; of two dactyls, dactylic dimeter; and so on up to dactylic hexameter, which is the meter of Homer's "Iliad," Vergil's "Æneid," and Longfellow's "Evangeline" and "Courtship of Miles Standish."

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