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Iambus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of iamb.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. an iamb

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in ămāns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under iambic, n.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In prosody, a foot of two syllables, the first short or unaccented and the second long or accented.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables

Word Usage

"That verse wherein the accent is on the even syllables may be called even or parisyllabic verse, and corresponds with what has been called iambic verse; retaining the term iambus for the name of the foot we shall thereby mean an unaccented and an accented syllable."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

metrical unit foot metrical foot

Variant

iambic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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