trochee

• troch. (abbreviation)
• trocheus (archaic)

Borrowed from French trochée, via Latin trochaeus from the Ancient Greek τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), derived from τρέχω (trékhō, “run”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹəʊki/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹoʊ.ki/
  • Homophone: troche
• Rhymes: -əʊki

trochee (plural trochees)

1. A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 152:

     ‘He made us read James Fenton on the genius of the trochee.’

• trochaic

• iamb

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