COMMON MEASURE


Meaning of COMMON MEASURE in English

1. See common time .

2. Also called common meter, hymnal stanza . Pros. a ballad stanza of four iambic lines and strict rhymes, often used in hymns, rhyming abcb or abab.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .