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common measure

   Also found in: Encyclopedia, Hutchinson 0.03 sec.
common measure
n.
A ballad stanza form in iambic meter, often rhyming in alternating pairs, that is typical of many church hymns. Also called common meter, hymnal stanza.
common measure
n
1. (Music, other) another term for common time
2. (Literature / Poetry) the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
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Noun1.common measure - a time signature indicating four beats to the bar
common time, four-four time, quadruple time
musical time - (music) the beat of musical rhythm
2.common measure - an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly
common divisor, common factor
divisor, factor - one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
greatest common divisor, greatest common factor, highest common factor - the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers
3.common measure - the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
common meter
cadence, metre, meter, measure, beat - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse


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In pursuance of this resolve, he took up his residence in the Puritan town as Roger Chillingworth, without other introduction than the learning and intelligence of which he possessed more than a common measure.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four double: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
All the dwellers in Starkfield, as in more notable communities, had had troubles enough of their own to make them comparatively indifferent to those of their neighbours; and though all conceded that Ethan Frome's had been beyond the common measure, no one gave me an explanation of the look in his face which, as I persisted in thinking, neither poverty nor physical suffering could have put there.
Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context
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