1. plural of trochee; metrical feet in poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
Usage: poetry; prosody

Examples

• The poem was written entirely in trochees, creating a distinctive rhythm.
• Shakespeare occasionally used trochees to vary the meter in his sonnets.
• Students learned to identify trochees by clapping out the stressed and unstressed syllables.
• The word ‘happy’ is an example of a trochee in English.
• Trochees are less common than iambs in English poetry.
• The poet substituted trochees for iambs to emphasize certain words.