| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| stichomythia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | stich·o·myth·i·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  st k  -mth  - |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also sti·chom·y·thy (st-k m-th) |
| NOUN: | An ancient Greek arrangement of dialogue in drama, poetry, and disputation in which single lines of verse or parts of lines are spoken by alternate speakers. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek stikhom thi , from stikhomthein, to speak in alternating lines : stikhos, stich; see steigh- in Appendix I + mthos, speech. | | OTHER FORMS: | sticho·mythic —ADJECTIVE
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