A-Z: General definitions
- Dactyl
- Dada
- Daedalus
- Daedalus and Icarus
- Dagon
- Damnation
- Danae
- Daniel
- Daniel O'Connell
- Dante
- Daphne
- Dark
- Dark Night (of the soul)
- Darkness
- David
- Day of Atonement
- Day of Judgement
- Day of the Lord
- De Profundis
- Deacon
- Deaconess
- Dead Sea
- Dean
- Death
- debate
- Deborah
- Decadents
- Decameron
- Declaration of Independence
- Declarative
- Decorum
- dedicate
- Definite article
- Defoe
- Degenerate
- Deified
- Deism
- Deist
- Deistic
- Deity
- Delilah
- Deliverance
- Delos
- Delphi
- Delphic Oracle
- Delphos
- Demeter
A-Z: General definitions: Dactyl
Definition
A unit of metre or foot, consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. It is thus a falling metre, like the trochaic.
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