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PRONUNCIATION OF CHOLIAMB

choliamb  [ˈkəʊlɪˌæmb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHOLIAMB

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conjunction
determiner
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Choliamb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHOLIAMB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Choliamb

Choliambic verse is a form of meter in poetry. It is found in both Greek and Latin poetry in the classical period. Choliambic verse is sometimes called scazon, or "lame iambic", because it brings the reader down on the wrong "foot" by reversing the stresses of the last few beats. It was originally pioneered by the Greek lyric poet Hipponax, who wrote "lame trochaics" as well as "lame iambics". The basic structure is much like iambic trimeter, except that the last cretic is made heavy by the insertion of a longum instead of a breve. Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line must be short in limping iambs. In other words, the line scans as follows: x ¯ ˘ ¯ x ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ ¯ ¯ As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long. The Latin poet Catullus provides a further example in Poem 8.

Definition of choliamb in the English dictionary

The definition of choliamb in the dictionary is an imperfect iambic metre, with a spondee as the last foot.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHOLIAMB


choriamb
ˈkɒrɪˌæmb
gamb
ɡæmb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHOLIAMB

cholericly
choleroid
cholestasis
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cholesteric
cholesterin
cholesterol
cholesterolaemia
cholesterolemia
cholestyramine
choli
choliambic
cholic acid
choline
cholinergic
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cholinesterase
cholla
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cholo

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHOLIAMB

baa-lamb
Canterbury lamb
dithyramb
doorjamb
enjamb
excamb
fat lamb
iamb
jamb
lamb
mutton dressed as lamb
Paschal Lamb
Persian lamb
sacrificial lamb
scramb
the Lamb

Synonyms and antonyms of choliamb in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «choliamb» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

choliamb
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

coliambo
570 millions of speakers

English

choliamb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

choliamb
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

choliamb
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

choliamb
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

choliamb
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

choliamb
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

choliamb
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Translator English - Malay

Choliamb
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Translator English - German

choliamb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

choliamb
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Translator English - Korean

choliamb
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Choliamb
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

choliamb
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

choliamb
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चोलींब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

choliamb
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

choliamb
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

choliamb
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choliamb
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

choliamb
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Translator English - Greek

choliamb
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choliamb
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Translator English - Swedish

choliamb
10 millions of speakers
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choliamb
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Trends of use of choliamb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHOLIAMB»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHOLIAMB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about choliamb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHOLIAMB»

Discover the use of choliamb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to choliamb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Latin Poetry, Including: Saturnian (Poetry), Avitus of ...
This particular book is a collaboration focused on Latin poetry.More info: Latin poetry was a major part of Latin literature during the height of the Latin language.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
2
History of the Graeco-Latin Fable: The fable during the ...
the Axle": eruoxpacpevxeq oi P6eq and oaov to Pdpoq f|Heiq cpepouev, oii xi Kpd^eiq (complete choliamb), compared with variants of I. In this article I also indicate traces of a common semiprosification. This is the case in H. 22 "The Fox and ...
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Gert-Jan van Dijk, 2000
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Ancient Greek Lyrics
I am ambidextrous and never miss a punch. Keep Going, Monster* Keep going, monster, all the long way. * Adrados, Liricos griegos, 2: 13. † Hipponax invented the choliamb, or lame iambic. * Attales: brother of Alyattes, King of Persia, whose  ...
‎2010
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Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic ...
While the poet admits that he has not journeyed to Ephesus nor mingled with the Ioni- ans, he at the same time composes his poem of self-defense in the Hipponactean choliamb, replete with Hipponactean language and imagery. This is in ...
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, 2002
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History of the Graeco-latin Fable: Inventory and ...
210, 220. Anomalous scheme, of situation but with two characters (cf. Vol. I, p. 523). It derives from AnF. 147. It has no derivatives unless we consider AnF. 210, 220. Stemma. XV.: AnF. I, II, III + Branc. In AnF. II we find a choliamb EK Sexrrepou ...
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, G. J. Van Dijk, 2003
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The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry
Examples: Euripides, Hippolytus 614 and Iphigenia Taurica 79: ov8els a8i/cd? eori /not <f>iXos. W W - — WWW/ W W // fj.rjT€pa Kara/era?, SiaSo^ai? 8' ' Epivvfav WWW /WWW W W // Under this heading we may add the choliamb, also called ...
James W. Halporn, Martin Ostwald, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, 1994
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Callimachus' Iambi
There are some general similarities between the first anonymous choliamb and Callimachus' third Iamb on Euthydemos. Faithfulness, especially Euthydemos' lack of it is Callimachus' main subject. The gods in whom the anonymous ...
D. L. Clayman, 1980
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Encyclopædia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, ...
Choliamb (Greek, ^uX/a^'of, the lame iambus ; also called skazon, from «<f£u, to halt ; or versus Hipponacticus, because the satirist Hipponax of Ephesus made use of it, er perhaps invented it). The choli- ambus is an iambic trimeter, the last ...
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1835
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Encyclopædia americana: a popular dictionary of arts, ...
Choliamb " Cholula " Choral " CONTENTS. Chord 161 Choregraphy " Choriambus " Chorography 162 Chorus (in the drama) .... " (in music) " Chosroes I " II " Chouans " Chough 163 Choumla " Chrism " Christ " (pictures of) " Church College ...
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1854
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The Influence of a Stress Accent in Latin Poetry
In the Byzantine Period, the choliamb of Babrius had lost all trace of prosody and had become a verse of twelve syllables in which it was only required that the last ictus coincide with the accent of the word — Ancient choliamb w__v^_w_w_v7 ...
Elizabeth Hickman Du Bois, 1906

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHOLIAMB»

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Unlocking the Poet Within.
It also has a practical, good-natured glossary (a choliamb is a “kind of metrical substitution, usually with ternary feet replacing binary. «New York Times, Oct 06»

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