Iamb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable or a short syllable followed by a long syllable, as in delay.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An iambus or iambic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as iambus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    trochee   
    Variant
    iambi   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    iambus    hemistich    spondee    freeness    dactyl    disyllabic    dolour    trochee    speech