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ALEXANDRINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Alexandrine mean? 

ALEXANDRINE (noun)
  The noun ALEXANDRINE has 1 sense:

1. (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feetplay

  Familiarity information: ALEXANDRINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALEXANDRINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Alexandrine" is a kind of...):

line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)

Domain category:

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)


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