Crossword-Solution: SPONDEE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spondee | n. | A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPONDEE | anagram | DEPONES |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SPONDEE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A foot consisting of two long syllables | 1 answer |
| metrical foot of two long syllables | 1 answer |
| Two-syllable foot, in poetry | 1 answer |
| Two long syllables in poetry | 1 answer |
| Poetic foot of two long syllables. | 1 answer |
| Poet's two-syllable foot | 1 answer |
| Poet's foot consisting of two stressed syllables | 1 answer |
| Musical foot | 1 answer |
| Kind of metrical foot | 1 answer |
| anapest relative | 5 answers |
| Two-syllable foot | 6 answers |
| POETIC foot | 6 answers |
| FOOT (poet.) | 8 answers |
| A METRICAL UNIT WITH STRESSED-STRESSED SYLLABLES | 11 answers |
| metrical foot | 12 answers |
| ANAPEST KIN | 12 answers |
| Metric Foot | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCMAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPONDEE (5)
Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.] [Footnote 17: Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, halting iambic) differs from the iambic Senarius in always having a spondee or trichee for its last foot; the fifth foot, to avoid shortness of meter, being generally an iambic.
Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
Pett about the difference between picric acid and trinitrotoluene, than which a pleasanter topic for the luncheon table could hardly be selected, and the voice of Clarence Renshaw rose above all other competing noises, as he spoke of the functions of the trochaic spondee.
Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.—Master, I must relate to you the history of the Barbeau mansion.
Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables, because the dactyl is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee.
Quotes with SPONDEE (1)
The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Slate, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).