iamb
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of iamb
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
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Etymology
From French iambe in the mid-1800s, from Latin ïambus, from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos). Displaced iambus which shares the same classical origin.
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