Usually means: Five metrical feet per line.
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  1. pentameter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pentameter: Merriam-Webster
  3. pentameter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pentameter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pentameter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pentameter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pentameter, pentameter: Wordnik
  8. pentameter: Wiktionary
  9. pentameter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pentameter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pentameter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pentameter, pentameter: Dictionary.com
  13. pentameter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Pentameter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pentameter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pentameter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pentameter: Rhymezone
  18. Pentameter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pentameter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pentameter: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pentameter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pentameter: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pentameter: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (poetry, countable) A line in a poem having five metrical feet.
▸ noun:  (poetry) Poetic metre in which each line has five feet.

Similar:
pentametre, tetrameter, hexameter, tetrametre, heptameter, decametre, octameter, dimeter, hexametre, trimeter, more...

Opposite:
tetrameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter

Phrases:
iambic pentameter, dactylic pentameter, elegiac pentameter, verse pentameter, more...

Adjectives:
iambic, unrhymed, english, rhymed, regular, trochaic, dactylic, perfect, unrimed, latin, strict
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Similar:
pentametre, tetrameter, hexameter, tetrametre, heptameter, decametre, octameter, dimeter, hexametre, trimeter, more...

Opposite:
tetrameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter

Phrases:
iambic pentameter, dactylic pentameter, elegiac pentameter, verse pentameter, more...

Adjectives:
iambic, unrhymed, english, rhymed, regular, trochaic, dactylic, perfect, unrimed, latin, strict



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