trochee

A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in season.

A metrical foot in quantitative verse consisting of a long syllable followed by a short one.

In prosody, a foot of two syllables, the first long or accented and the second short or unaccented. The trochee of modern or accentual versification consists of an accented followed by an unaccented syllable.

A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables