Associations to the word «Spondee»

Wiktionary

SPONDEE, noun. A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.

Dictionary definition

SPONDEE, noun. A metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne