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Found 4 hits - Term: iambic, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
iambic \iam"bic\, a. l. iambicus, gr. ?: cf. f. iambique.
   1. pros. consisting of a short syllable followed by a long
      one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented;
      as, an iambic foot.
      1913 webster

   2. pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic
      verse; iambic meter. see lambus.
      1913 webster
see also:
lambus 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
iambic \iam"bic\, n.
   1. pros.
      a an iambic foot; an iambus.
      b a verse composed of iambic feet.
          1913 webster

   note: the following couplet consists of iambic verses.
         1913 webster

               thy gen- | ius calls | thee not | to pur- | chase
               fame
               in keen | iam- | bics, but | mild an- | agram.
                                                  --dryden.
         1913 webster

   2. a satirical poem such poems having been anciently written
      in iambic verse; a satire; a lampoon.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
iambic
     adj : of or consisting of iambs; "iambic pentameter"
     n : a verse line consisting of iambs

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
87 moby thesaurus words for "iambic":
   alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer,
   anacrusis, anapest, antispast, antispastic, arsis, bacchius, beat,
   cadence, cadenced, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus,
   colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic, dactylic hexameter,
   diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
   elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot,
   heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb,
   iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura,
   measure, measured, meter, metric, metrical accent, metrical foot,
   metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement,
   numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic,
   prosodic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, rhythmic, scanning, spondaic,
   spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter,
   tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme,
   trochaic, trochee





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