ALL meanings of iamb
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I i - noun iamb A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. 1
- noun iamb a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love. 1
- noun iamb a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, a short one followed by a long one (◡ –) 0
- noun iamb a line of verse of such feet 0
- noun iamb a metrical foot consisting, in Greek and Latin verse, of one short syllable followed by one long one, or, as in English verse, of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented one (Ex.: “Tŏ stríve, tŏ séek, tŏ fínd, ănd nót tŏ yíeld”) 0
- noun iamb A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. 0