hexameter

hexameter has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity.
• a.. Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.
• n.. a verse line having six metrical feet