Alexandrine
nounHow to pronounce Alexandrine:
Definition of Alexandrine:
- Alexandrine (noun):
- a line of verse of 12 syllables consisting regularly of 6 iambs with a caesura after the third iamb
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- excellently
- contemptible
- dispensation
- quadrillion
- frenziedly
- tonic water
- stegosaurus
- Filomena
- disconsolate
- unimportant
- kaleidoscope
- caretaker
- abnormally
- selling climax
- luminously
- bacteria
- millisecond
- consciously
- miscalculate
- ejectable
- shamelessly
- deportation
- chiropracty
- Jerusalem
- nihilism
- biographer
- monometer
- lavender-pink
- delinquent
- academic
- semper idem
- invitation
- inundated
- frivolities
- dissimulate
- autentique
- Aurelian
- unessential
- pugnacious
- Melburnian
- gloriously
- irregular
- contributing
- Chandra Gowri
- typography
- pre-ignition
- dehydrated
- resuscitate
- refreshingly
- unauthorized
- … more
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Syllables can be classified into open syllables, ending in a vowel, and closed syllables, ending in a consonant.
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