Usually means: Eight syllables per line poetry.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. octosyllable: Merriam-Webster
  2. octosyllable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. octosyllable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. octosyllable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. octosyllable: Vocabulary.com
  6. octosyllable: Wordnik
  7. octosyllable: Wiktionary
  8. octosyllable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. octosyllable: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Octosyllable, octosyllable: Dictionary.com
  11. Octosyllable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Octosyllable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. octosyllable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. octosyllable: Rhymezone
  15. Octosyllable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. octosyllable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. octosyllable: FreeDictionary.org
  18. octosyllable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. octosyllable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OCTOSYLLABLE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (octosyllable)

▸ noun:  (poetry) line of verse with eight syllables

Similar:
octosyllabics, octastich, octave, octonarius, octameter, heptasyllable, octapody, enneasyllable, fourteener, decasyllable, more...

Opposite:
hexameter, pentameter, heptameter

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Similar:
octosyllabics, octastich, octave, octonarius, octameter, heptasyllable, octapody, enneasyllable, fourteener, decasyllable, more...

Opposite:
hexameter, pentameter, heptameter



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