Definition of Hexameters

1. Noun. (plural of hexameter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hexameters

1. hexameter [n] - See also: hexameter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexameters

hexahydroborite
hexahydroxycyclohexane
hexakis-
hexakisphosphate
hexakisphosphates
hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
hexality
hexalogy
hexamer
hexameric
hexamerous
hexamers
hexametaphosphate
hexametazime
hexameter
hexameters (current term)
hexamethone bromide
hexamethonium
hexamethonium chloride
hexamethonium compounds
hexamethoniums
hexamethoxide
hexamethoxides
hexamethyl
hexamethylbenzene
hexamethylbenzenes
hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane
hexamethylenamin
hexamethylene
hexamethylene diamine

Literary usage of Hexameters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"EXCURSUS (a) On hexameters in the Lyric and Tragic poets. ... hexameters in lyric and tragic poets are apparent rather than real. They are lyric groups of 4 ..."

2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1904)
"2 Of his own hexameters the following specimen will suffice :— ENCOMIUM LAURI What might. I call this tree ? A laurel ? O bonny Laurel ! ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1846)
"IN ENGLISH hexameters. • [THE anthor of the version of the Last Book of the Iliad, in the Number for March, has been requested by the Editor of this ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"These lines again are dactylic hexameters, though the third of them has four ... These hexameters differ from what are commonly so called, only, ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Then, the hexameters. I do not like this measure in English. Our language has too many little words to bear this dactylic and spondaic yoke; but Longfellow ..."

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