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pentameter

noun

[Gr. five, and measure.]

In ancient poetry, a verse of five feet. The two first feet may be either dactyls or spondees; the third is always a spondee, and the two last anapests. A pentameter verse subjoined to a hexameter, constitutes what is called elegiac.

pentameter

adjective
Having five metrical feet.