Definitions for: Trochee

[n] a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables

Webster (1913) Definition: Tro"chee, n. [L. trochaeus, Gr. ? (sc.?), from ?
running, from ? to run. Cf. Troche, Truck a wheel.]
(Pros.)
A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short,
as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the
second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

See Also: foot, metrical foot, metrical unit