trimeter

• trimetre

From tri- + meter.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪmɪtəɹ/, /ˈtɹaɪmɪtəɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪmɪtə(ɹ)/, /ˈtɹaɪmɪtə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)

trimeter (plural trimeters)

1. A line in a poem having three metrical feet.
2. a poetic metre in which each line has three feet.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 20:

     All the rest of Aeschylus’ significant innovations are as nothing in comparison, […] the installation of the iambic trimeter as the appropriate verse of dialogue.

• trimetric
• trimetrical

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

• remitter, trimetre