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1. (n.) anapest
a trisyllabic metrical foot whose syllables are short, short, long in quantitative meter and unstressed, unstressed, stressed in accentual meter.
Etymology: (1580–90; < L anapaestus < Gk anápaistos struck back, reversed (as compared with a dactyl))
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1. (noun) anapest, anapaest
a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
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1. (noun) anapest
a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests
2. (noun) anapest
a verse composed of such feet
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