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Meaning of "octameter" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OCTAMETER

octameter  [ɒkˈtæmɪtə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCTAMETER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Octameter is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OCTAMETER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Octameter

Octameter in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet. It is not very common in English verse. E.g.: - Trochaic Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door Iambic I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well-acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. Dactylic Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight, The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger than...

Definition of octameter in the English dictionary

The definition of octameter in the dictionary is a verse line consisting of eight metrical feet.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OCTAMETER


accelerometer
ækˌsɛləˈrɒmɪtə
diameter
daɪˈæmɪtə
dynameter
daɪˈnæmɪtə
heptameter
hɛpˈtæmɪtə
hexameter
hɛkˈsæmɪtə
kilometre
kɪˈlɒmɪtə
limiter
ˈlɪmɪtə
multiparameter
ˌmʌltɪpəˈræmɪtə
parameter
pəˈræmɪtə
pentameter
pɛnˈtæmɪtə
perimeter
pəˈrɪmɪtə
permeameter
ˌpɜːmɪˈæmɪtə
semidiameter
ˌsɛmɪdaɪˈæmɪtə
speedometer
spɪˈdɒmɪtə
tetrameter
tɛˈtræmɪtə
thermometer
θəˈmɒmɪtə
transmitter
trænzˈmɪtə
trocheameter
ˌtrəʊkɪˈæmɪtə
viameter
vaɪˈæmɪtə
voltameter
vɒlˈtæmɪtə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCTAMETER

octagonal
octagonally
octahedra
octahedral
octahedrally
octahedrite
octahedron
octal
octal notation
octamerous
octan
octandrian
octandrous
octane
octane number
octane rating
octanedioic acid
octangle
octangular
octanol

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCTAMETER

altimeter
barometer
centimeter
Demeter
diffractometer
dosimeter
electricity meter
hydrometer
inclinometer
manometer
meter
micrometer
millimeter
multimeter
nanometer
odometer
peter
potentiometer
spectrometer
spectrophotometer
voltmeter

Synonyms and antonyms of octameter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «octameter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCTAMETER

Find out the translation of octameter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of octameter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «octameter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

octameter
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

octameter
570 millions of speakers

English

octameter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

octameter
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

octameter
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

octameter
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

octameter
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আটটি পর্ববিশিষ্ট কবিতার চরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

octameter
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Octameter
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

octameter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

octameter
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

octameter
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Octameter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

octameter
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எட்டுச் சீர்கள் கொண்ட கவிதை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आठमापक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

octameter
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

octameter
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

octameter
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

octameter
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

octameter
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

octameter
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

octameter
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

octameter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

octameter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of octameter

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTAMETER»

The term «octameter» is used very little and occupies the 184.925 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTAMETER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «octameter» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «octameter» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about octameter

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTAMETER»

Discover the use of octameter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to octameter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Octameter
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Octameter in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet. It is not very common in English verse. E.g.: -
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Popular Photography - ND
Ten-diameter magnification transmits true, distortionfree images and allows adjustment for individual eyesight. A true image it trarumimd tbrougb aptieai ryrlem nfeyr-In/:1 /2101! Then the Octameter finder, another exclusive Bolex feature, gives ...
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Poetry Kaleidoscope:
Back | Home | Up | Next Octameter in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet. It is not very common in English verse. E.g: - Trochaic Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of ...
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2014
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A grammar of the Persian language: to which is added, a ...
Of this Metre there are six Variations, four Octameter and two Hexameter, viz. — Standard. — Fudilatun, Mustafdilun, Fudilatun. 135. Of this Metre there are four Variations, all of them Hexameter, viz. — Var. 1. Fadilatun, Mafadilun, Fadilatun. 2.
Duncan Forbes, 1869
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Poetry
Tennyson manage to make his lines avoid this tendency and make the octameter seem the only possible way of setting the verses: Yet it shall be: thou shalt lower to his level day by day, What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize ...
John Strachan, Richard Terry, 2011
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Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism ...
69 The beat of the trochaic lines—which move from octameter acatalectic in the first, to heptameter catalectic in the second, back to octameter in the third, again to octameter acatalectic in the fourth and fifth, and finally to tetrameter catalectic in ...
Paul Grimstad, 2013
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Critical Theory: The Major Documents
See the second item in our notes to 125. octameter acatalectic . . . heptameter catalectic: What Poe is trying to say is that the second, fourth, and fifth lines of each stanza in “The Raven” have one less syllable than the first and third. He misuses ...
Stuart Levine, Susan F. Levine, 2008
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Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres, abridged and ...
2519. writes that an octameter catalectic on two syllables also was used. But this is probably a mere imagination of metricians arising from the union of two tetrameters, the one acatalectic, and the other catalectic on two syllables, which some ...
Johann Gottfried Jacob HERMANN, John SEAGER, 1830
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In the Midst of the Storm
YOU CAN DO IT (Octameter-form) Dry those weeping eyes Put smile on your face Girl you're looking great You have what it take You are strong you'll see God makes no mistake All is in control He will not forsake He can see the play Big ...
Mary Ann Harring-Duhart, 2011
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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and ...
In English verse the following metres are the most common: iambic dactylic anapaestic spondaic trochaic Line lengths can extend from one foor monometer to eight feet octameter, including dimeter (2), trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter ...
Ronald Carter, John McRae, 2001

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCTAMETER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term octameter is used in the context of the following news items.
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The New-Work Philharmonic
The syllables are so stretched out that you lose the familiar octameter rhythm of the verse, but the slow monotone creates its own hypnotic effect ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 14»

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