1. a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter; [syn: heroic verse, heroic meter, heroic]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
heroic meter
n 1: a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated
themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter [syn:
heroic verse, heroic meter, heroic]