SATURNIAN VERSE

Definition: SATURNIAN VERSE

SATURNIAN VERSE

1. (Pros.), a meter employed by early Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: -- Th[e^] qu[=e]en | w[a^]s [imac]n | th[e^] k[imac]tch | [e^]n || [=e]at[i^]ng | br[=e]ad [a^]nd | h[=o]n[e^]y.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: SATURNIAN VERSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-n-n-r-r-s-s-t-u-v"
	-3 letters: aventurines, natriureses, turnvereins, unassertive.
	-4 letters: aventurine, entrainers, innervates, inventress, invertases, narratives, nativeness, saunterers, stannaries, transverse, treasuries, turnverein, veratrines.
	-5 letters: anserines, antisense, arsenates, arsenites, assertive, ensnarers, entrainer, estuaries, estuarine, inertness, innervate, insensate, inserters, insnarers, insurants, inventers, inverness, invertase, inverters, irateness, naiveness, narrative, nauseants, nauseates, nerviness, nurseries, reinserts, reinsures, reinvents, reinvests, renatures, reservist, resinates, restrains, restriven, restrives, retainers, reuniters, revenants, runtiness, saturnine, saunterer, sauternes, seatrains, serenatas, sirventes, stearines, strainers, sustainer, taeniases, tanneries, taverners, ternaries, traverses, treasures, tsarevnas, turneries, uneasiest, universes, venetians, venturers, veratrias, veratrine, veratrins.
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