Paeon: Definition and part of speech

Paeon

  1. n. A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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