Alexandrine Definition

aligzandrin, aligzandrēn
noun
A line of English verse composed in iambic hexameter, usually with a caesura after the third foot.
American Heritage
An iambic line having normally six feet; iambic hexameter.
Webster's New World
A line of French verse consisting of 12 syllables with a caesura usually falling after the sixth syllable.
American Heritage

A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.

Wiktionary

An Alexandrine parrot or parakeet.

Wiktionary
adjective
Characterized by or composed in either of these meters.
American Heritage
Of an alexandrine.
Webster's New World

Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Alexandrine

Noun

Singular:
alexandrine
Plural:
alexandrines

Origin of Alexandrine

  • French alexandrin from Old French from Alexandre title of a romance about Alexander the Great that was written in this meter

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Alexandrine Sentence Examples

  • The Poem of the Cid is but a fragment of 3744 lines, written in a barbarous style, in rugged assonant rhymes, and a rude Alexandrine measure, but it glows with the pure fire of poetry, and is full of a noble simplicity and a true epical grandeur, invaluable as a living picture of the age.

  • He quotes Aristotle, Heraclides Ponticus, Aeschines Socraticus, Idomeneus of Lampsacus and Duris of Samos, and is also indebted through some Alexandrine intermediary to Ephorus and Theopompus.

  • From choice or compulsion large numbers settled in Egypt in the time of the Ptolemies, and added an appreciable element to Alexandrine culture, while gradual voluntary emigration established Jewish communities in Syria, Asia Minor, Greece and Italy, who facilitated the first spread of Christianity.

  • The resemblances between primitive Christianity and Buddhism appear to be coincidences, and though both early Greek philosophy and later Alexandrine ideas suggest Indian affinities, there is no clear connexion such as there is between certain aspects of Chinese thought and India.

  • Apion was the leader of the Alexandrine embassy which opposed Philo and his companions when they appeared in behalf of the Alexandrine Jews before Caligula.

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