Usually means: Poetic line with eleven syllables.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word hendecasyllable:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. hendecasyllable: Merriam-Webster
  2. hendecasyllable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hendecasyllable: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hendecasyllable: Wordnik
  5. hendecasyllable: Wiktionary
  6. hendecasyllable: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Hendecasyllable, hendecasyllable: Dictionary.com
  8. Hendecasyllable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Hendecasyllable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. hendecasyllable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Hendecasyllable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. hendecasyllable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. hendecasyllable: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hendecasyllable: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See hendecasyllabic as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hendecasyllable)

▸ noun:  (chiefly prosody) A line, verse, or word that comprises eleven syllables.

Similar:
endecasyllable, decasyllable, heptasyllable, hendecameter, dodecasyllable, decasyllabon, duodecasyllable, hexasyllable, enneasyllable, tetrasyllable, more...

Opposite:
dodecasyllable, decasyllable, octosyllable

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Similar:
endecasyllable, decasyllable, heptasyllable, hendecameter, dodecasyllable, decasyllabon, duodecasyllable, hexasyllable, enneasyllable, tetrasyllable, more...

Opposite:
dodecasyllable, decasyllable, octosyllable



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