Usually means: Poetic meter with two feet.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. dimeter: Merriam-Webster
  2. dimeter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dimeter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dimeter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dimeter: Wordnik
  6. dimeter: Wiktionary
  7. dimeter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. dimeter: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Dimeter, dimeter: Dictionary.com
  10. Dimeter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Dimeter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. dimeter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Dimeter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dimeter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. dimeter: FreeDictionary.org
  16. dimeter: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (dimeter)

noun:  (poetry) A line in a poem having two metrical feet.
noun:  (poetry) A poetic metre in which each line has two feet.

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