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1. (n.) amphibrach
a trisyllabic metrical foot whose syllables are short, long, short in quantitative meter, and unstressed, stressed, unstressed in accentual meter.
Etymology: (1580–90; < L amphibrachus < Gk amphíbrachys short at both ends =amphi-amphi - +brachýs short)
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1. (noun) amphibrach
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')
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1. (noun) amphibrach
a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic
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