Look up: Spondee

1. Spondee
   A foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables e.g. as in 'PANCAKE'.
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2. spondee
   [n] - a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
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3. Spondee
   Spon'dee noun [ Latin spondeus , Greek ... (sc. ...), from ... a drink offering, libation, from ... to pour out, make a libation: confer French spondée . So called because at libations slow, solemn melodies were used, chiefly in this meter.]...
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4. spondee
   A bisyllabic word with generally equivalent stress on each of the two syllables; used in the testing of speech hearing. ... Origin: Fr. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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5. spondee
   noun a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
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6. Spondee
   • (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges.
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7. spondee
   metrical foot consisting of two long (as in classical verse) or stressed (as in English verse) syllables occurring together. The term was derived ... [3 related articles]
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8. spondee
   a metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables / ' ' /. An example of a spondaic word is 'hog-wild.' The di-spondee / ' ' ' ' / is a Classical Greek and Latin metrical foot.
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9. Spondee
   In prosody a spondee is a foot containing two long, or accented syllables. The term is derived from the Greek sponde, a libation, because this slow, dignified measure was much used in the hymns sung at solemn libations.
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10. spondee
    Type: Term Pronunciation: spon′dē Definitions: 1. A bisyllabic word with equivalent stress on each syllable; used in the testing of hearing for speech.
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11. Spondee
    In poetry, a `spondee` is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables, as determined by stress in modern meters. This makes it unique in English verse as all other feet (excepting molossus, which has three stressed...
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12. Spondee
    (song) `Spondee` is the title of a piece composed by IDM duo Matmos. It is the third track on their 2001 album "A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure." The piece revolves around audio samples from a hearing test: a woman`s voice reciting two-syllable words, stressing both syllables. A...
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