Usually means: Eight syllables per line metric.
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  1. octosyllabic: Merriam-Webster
  2. octosyllabic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. octosyllabic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. octosyllabic: Vocabulary.com
  5. octosyllabic: Wordnik
  6. octosyllabic: Wiktionary
  7. octosyllabic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. octosyllabic: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Octosyllabic, octosyllabic: Dictionary.com
  10. Octosyllabic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Octosyllabic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. octosyllabic: Rhymezone
  13. Octosyllabic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. octosyllabic: FreeDictionary.org
  15. octosyllabic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. octosyllabic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. octosyllabic: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (octosyllabic)

▸ adjective:  Containing eight syllables

Similar:
syllabic, octosyllabical, octasyllabic, octonarian, undecasyllabic, decasyllabic, septisyllabic, tetrasyllabic, dodecasyllabic, quindecasyllabic, more...

Opposite:
hexameter, pentameter, heptameter, tetrameter

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Similar:
syllabic, octosyllabical, octasyllabic, octonarian, undecasyllabic, decasyllabic, septisyllabic, tetrasyllabic, dodecasyllabic, quindecasyllabic, more...

Opposite:
hexameter, pentameter, heptameter, tetrameter



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