Usually means: Metrical foot with one stressed syllable.
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  1. choreus: Merriam-Webster
  2. choreus: Wordnik
  3. choreus: Wiktionary
  4. Choreus: Dictionary.com
  5. Choreus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Choreus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. choreus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. choreus: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Choreus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Choreus: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (choreus)

▸ noun:  (prosody) A trochee.
▸ noun:  (prosody) A tribrach.

Similar:
trochaick, strophe, choreopoem, choriambic, trochaic, pyrrhichius, antispast, antistrophe, hyporchema, trophoneurosis, more...

Opposite:
achoreus, stillness, immobility

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Similar:
trochaick, strophe, choreopoem, choriambic, trochaic, pyrrhichius, antispast, antistrophe, hyporchema, trophoneurosis, more...

Opposite:
achoreus, stillness, immobility



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