Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

spondeemore about spondee

spondee


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spondee  \Spon"dee\,  n.  [L.  spondeus  Gr  ?  (sc.  ?),  fr  ?  a 
  drink  offering,  libation,  fr  ?  to  pour  out  make  a  libation: 
  cf  F.  spond['e]e.  So  called  because  at  libations  slow, 
  solemn  melodies  were  used  chiefly  in  this  meter.]  (pros.) 
  A  poetic  foot  of  two  long  syllables,  as  in  the  Latin  word 
  l[=e]g[=e]s. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  spondee 
  n  :  a  metrical  unit  with  stressed-stressed  syllables 




more about spondee