Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of trochees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a trochee: as, trochaic rhythm.
- Constituting or equivalent to a trochee: as, a trochaic foot.
- Consisting or composed of trochees: as, trochaic verses.
- noun A trochaic verse or period.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A trochaic verse or measure.
- adjective (Pros.) Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Referring to poetry composed of
trochees ,feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. - noun A poetical composition of this kind.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or consisting of trochees
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The metre is the eight-syllable trochaic, which is the commonest metre used by the Esthonians and Finns.
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878
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It is what has been heretofore called trochaic verse.
Miscellany 1784
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If "trochaic" measures do not always trip it on a light fantastic toe, neither do
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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I would never think trochaic tetrameters would be so fresh, but the main quality of the Kalevala is how simple it seems, how fresh and uncomplicated, how like the dawn of the world.
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But I hear it as a shifting dactylic/trochaic meter that periodically emerges as a series ofiambs.
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Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.
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Pretty straightforward iambic pentameter, except for the strong trochaic substitution in the first line and the two trochees that open line10.
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Pretty straightforward iambic pentameter, except for the strong trochaic substitution in the first line and the two trochees that open line10.
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Porter moved gracefully among poetic meters – iambic, trochaic, anapestic – and at his best is as funny as such titans of light verse as Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker.
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I liked my name, the alliteration of it, the solidity of its four trochaic syllables.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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