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Word: Spondee
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English: from Old French, or via Latin from Greek spondeios (pous) ‘(foot) of a libation’, from spondē ‘libation’ (being characteristic of music accompanying libations)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈspɒndiː
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
Short Definition:foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables
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