1. A metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen.
Example Sentence with anapest
That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable.
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