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Definition of TROCHEE

  • a type of metrical foot [n TROCHEES]
  • a type of metrical foot, also TROCHAIC [n -S]
  • foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter