- 1. n. A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n. Source: opted
- 2. n. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables Source: wordnet
- 3. A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in âmans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n. Source: webster
- 4. A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one,as in âmans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accentedone, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n. Source: adambom
- 5. n a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables Source: ecdict
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