Usually means: Sixteen-syllable line in poetry.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word alexandrine:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. alexandrine: Merriam-Webster
  2. alexandrine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alexandrine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Alexandrine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Alexandrine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alexandrine, alexandrine: Wordnik
  7. Alexandrine, alexandrine: Wiktionary
  8. alexandrine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. alexandrine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Alexandrine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Alexandrine, alexandrine: Dictionary.com
  12. Alexandrine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Alexandrine (disambiguation), Alexandrine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Alexandrine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. alexandrine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Alexandrine: Rhymezone
  17. Alexandrine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. alexandrine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. alexandrine: FreeDictionary.org
  20. alexandrine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. alexandrine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. alexandrine: Merriam-Webster

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alexandrine: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Alexandrine)

noun:  (poetry) A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
adjective:  Of or relating to Alexandria.
noun:  A native or inhabitant of Alexandria.
adjective:  Of or relating to Alexander the Great.
noun:  A female given name from French.
noun:  Short for Alexandrine parakeet. [A medium-sized parrot, Psittacula eupatria, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of alexandrine. [(poetry) A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.]

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