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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Iambus \I*am"bus\, n.; pl L. {Iambi}, E. {Iambuses}. [L. iambus, Gr ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to throw. Cf {Jet} a shooting forth.] (Pros.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one as in [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under {Iambic}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: iambus n : a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: {iamb}]
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