1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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