Usually means: Stressed syllable followed by unstressed.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word trochee:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. trochee: Merriam-Webster
  2. trochee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trochee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. trochee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trochee: Vocabulary.com
  6. trochee: Wordnik
  7. trochee: Wiktionary
  8. trochee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. trochee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. trochee: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. trochee: Dictionary.com
  12. trochee: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Trochee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Trochee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. trochee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. trochee: Rhymezone
  17. Trochee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. trochee: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. trochee: FreeDictionary.org
  20. trochee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. trochee: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TROCHEE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trochee: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trochee: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trochee: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See trochees as well.)

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noun:  A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.

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