common meter

1. 1.

   the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad

   Synonymscommon measure

   Broadermeter

Questions about common meter

What does common meter mean?

common meter means "the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad".

What is another word for common meter?

Close synonyms include common measure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common meter a common word?

common meter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.