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Meaning of "choliambic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHOLIAMBIC

choliambic  [ˌkəʊlɪˈæmbɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHOLIAMBIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Choliambic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CHOLIAMBIC 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 choliambic in the English dictionary

The definition of choliambic in the dictionary is relating to the choliamb or imperfect iambic metre that has a spondee as the last foot.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHOLIAMBIC


alembic
əˈlɛmbɪk
choriambic
ˌkɒrɪˈæmbɪk
columbic
kəˈlʌmbɪk
coulombic
kuːˈlɒmbɪk
dithyrambic
ˌdɪθɪˈræmbɪk
galliambic
ˌɡælɪˈæmbɪk
iambic
aɪˈæmbɪk
Lambic
ˈlæmbɪk
limbic
ˈlɪmbɪk
orthorhombic
ˌɔːθəʊˈrɒmbɪk
plumbic
ˈplʌmbɪk
rhombic
ˈrɒmbɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHOLIAMBIC

cholestasis
cholestatic
cholesteric
cholesterin
cholesterol
cholesterolaemia
cholesterolemia
cholestyramine
choli
choliamb
cholic acid
choline
cholinergic
cholinergically
cholinesterase
cholla
chollers
cholo
Cholon
choltry

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHOLIAMBIC

acerbic
aerobic
agoraphobic
amebic
amoebic
anaerobic
claustrophobic
coxcombic
cubic
gum arabic
homophobic
hydrophobic
Islamophobic
monosyllabic
necrophobic
phobic
pubic
suprapubic
tombic
xenophobic

Synonyms and antonyms of choliambic in the English dictionary of synonyms

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choliambic
1,325 millions of speakers

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coliámbicas
570 millions of speakers

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choliambic
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choliambic
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ar

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choliambic
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choliambic
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choliambic
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choliambic
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choliambic
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Choliambic
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choliambic
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choliambic
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choliambic
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Choliambic
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vi

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHOLIAMBIC»

Discover the use of choliambic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to choliambic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Study of the Poems of Catullus in the Choliambic Meter
Submitted in partial fulfilment [sic] of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Syracuse University, Classical Languages and Archaeology.
Inez Louise Wetmore, Syracuse University. College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University. Graduate School, 1940
2
Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic ...
The opening lines of the poet's response show a marked use of iambic tone and imagery, with specific recollections of Iambus 1 and of the poet's initial appearance as choliambic voice in that poem. The final lines of Iambus 13 (64-66 ), the ...
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, 2002
3
History of the Graeco-Latin Fable: The fable during the ...
I indicated what is the approximate state of the question in relation to the Babrius of the Athous manuscript, the other choliambic fables preserved (which the compilers include in their editions of Babrius, numbered starting from 124) and the ...
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Gert-Jan van Dijk, 2000
4
Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire
claim that his choliambic Iambi no longer resound with the Battles of Bupalus ( Iambus 1.1–4).28 So even if, unlikely as it is, Babrius had never read a single word of Hipponax, he clearly knew Callimachus' Iambi well enough to have ...
Tom Hawkins, 2014
5
Callimachus' Iambi
choliambic poem like the first anonymous fragment, but it soon becomes clear that the situation which motivated Callimachus' poem is a homosexual relationship— a feature of the corrupt present which is castigated in the third fragment of P.
D. L. Clayman, 1980
6
Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel
It offers proof that BAP did not have the choliambic version of the Ismenias song at its disposal. It proves also that MS A was already independent of the original composition. It is even possible that originally not otportoig but otportw'awtg was  ...
Marília Futre Pinheiro, S. J. Harrison, 2011
7
A Companion to Catullus
One species of iambic verse was the “limping iambic” (choliambic), apparently first used by Hipponax in the sixth century bc. The choliambic is an iambic trimeter with a trochee or spondee in place of an iamb at verse-end. Of this “ limping” ...
Marilyn B. Skinner, 2010
8
Cynics
Herodes, Cercidas, and the Greek Choliambic Poets (London: Heinemann, 1929 ) and J. Rusten & I. C. Cunningham (eds), Characters. Mimes. Cercidas and the Choliambic Poets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993); and ...
William D. Desmond, 2008
9
“The” Philological Museum
Two scazons of Apollonius Rhodius likewise shew the same character of dialect": which also appears in the choliambic inscription of Theocritus for the tomb of Hipponax”. Finding therefore that the antique language of Hipponax had been ...
‎1832
10
The Idea of Iambos
29 In two of his six surviving choliambic fragments of moralizing content (frr. 2.17 and 6.1) Phoenix of Colophon (3rd cent. BCE) uses the term for his own poems. Moreover, the collection of his poems might have been entitled This is suggested  ...
Andrea Rotstein, 2009

REFERENCE
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