Meanings
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noun
a metrical foot of four syllables with one long or stressed syllable and three short or unstressed syllables
The class marked the stressed syllable in each paeon before reading the verse aloud.
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Etymology
From Latin paeon, from Greek paion or paian, a name connected with a hymn to Apollo. The prosodic term came to denote a four-syllable foot whose single prominent syllable may occupy any of four positions.