The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hendecasyllable \Hen*dec"a*syl`la*ble\, n. [L. hendecasyllabus,
Gr. ? eleven-syllabled; ? eleven + ? syllable: cf. F.
hend['e]casyllabe.]
A metrical line of eleven syllables.
--J. Warton.
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly prosody English) A line, verse, or word that comprises eleven syllables.
Wikipedia
The hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables, used in Ancient Greek and Latin quantitative verse as well as in medieval and modern European poetry.
Usage examples of "hendecasyllable".
Alcaics and Hendecasyllables had appeared in the interval, and had suggested to me the new principle on which I was to go to work.
Swinburne, in his Sapphics and Hendecasyllables, while writing on a manifestly artistic conception of those metres, and, in my judgment, proving their possibility for modern purposes by the superior rhythmical effect which a classically trained ear enabled him to make in handling them, neglects position as a rule, though his nice sense of metre leads him at times to observe it, and uniformly rejects any approach to the harsh combinations indulged in by other writers.