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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CHORIAMB

From Late Latin choriambus, from Greek khoriambos, from khoreios trochee, of a chorus, from khoroschorus.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CHORIAMB

choriamb  [ˈkɒrɪˌæmb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHORIAMB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Choriamb 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 CHORIAMB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Choriamb

In Greek and Latin poetry, a choriamb /ˈkɔriˌæmb/ is a metron consisting of four syllables in the pattern long-short-short-long, that is, a trochee alternating with an iamb. Choriambs are one of the two basic metra that do not occur in spoken verse, as distinguished from true lyric or sung verse. The choriamb is sometimes regarded as the "nucleus" of Aeolic verse, because the pattern long-short-short-long pattern occurs, but to label this a "choriamb" is potentially misleading. In the prosody of English and other modern European languages, "choriamb" is sometimes used to describe four-syllable sequence of the pattern stressed-unstressed-unstressed-stressed: for example, "over the hill", "under the bridge", and "what a mistake!".

Definition of choriamb in the English dictionary

The definition of choriamb in the dictionary is a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHORIAMB


choliamb
ˈkəʊlɪˌæmb
gamb
ɡæmb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHORIAMB

chorial
choriambi
choriambic
choriambus
choric
chorine
chorioallantoic
chorioallantois
choriocarcinoma
chorioid
chorion
chorionic
chorionic gonadotrophin
chorionic villus sampling
chorisation
chorisis
chorism
chorist
chorister
chorization

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHORIAMB

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 choriamb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «choriamb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHORIAMB

Find out the translation of choriamb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of choriamb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «choriamb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

choriamb
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

choriamb
570 millions of speakers

English

choriamb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

choriamb
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

choriamb
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

choriamb
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

choriamb
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছঁদবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

choriamb
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Choriamb
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

choriamb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

choriamb
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

choriamb
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nggoleki
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cách kể âm trong thơ xưa ở hy lạp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

choriamb
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चोरिम्ब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dört heceli bir ölçü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

choriamb
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

choriamb
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

choriamb
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

choriamb
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

choriamb
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

choriamb
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

choriamb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

choriamb
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of choriamb

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHORIAMB»

The term «choriamb» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.819 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHORIAMB» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHORIAMB»

Discover the use of choriamb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to choriamb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
pherecratean. = choriamb, dim. = telesilleion or syncopated glyconic (= — • — w w — w— ). = pherecrat. w Tpcun&l].1 = resolved choriamb. + cretic. = syncopated choriamb, dim. = choriamb, dim. = syncopated choriamb, dim. (see notes).
Euripides, Maurice Platnauer, 1998
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A Short, Plain, Comprehensive, Practical Latin Grammar, ...
Tricolo» tetrastrofihos. Sfiond. Choriamb. Choriamb. Pyrrh. 1. Quis mul j ta gracilis | te puer in | rosa. Sfiond. Chor. Chor. Pyrrh. 2. Perfu | sus liqufdis | Qrget odo | ribus. Sfiond. Dact. Sfiond. 3. Grato, | Pyrrha, sub | antro. Sfiond. Choriamb. Pyrrh.
James Ross, 1818
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The metres of the Greeks and Romans: a manual for schools ...
Monomet. choriamb. ...... 208 2. Diiuet. choriamb . 208 3. Trim, choriamb. ....... 208 c. Choriambic series with the basis and logaoedic terminations 208 1. Monom. choriamb. Sapphicum enneasyllabum . 208 2. Dimet. choriamb. Asclepiadenm I. .
Eduard Munk, 1844
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The Antigone of Sophocles: With Notes ...
Choriamb. dimeter, catalectic logaaadically, with a basis. Herm. Epit. 407, 416. The Glyconeus hypercatalectus so called. Munk, P. 91. τ _ I L. V V _ v _ _ 2. The same, with an anacrusis instead of a basis. ;|_|-_,v_v__ 3. Choriamb. trimeter ...
Sophocles, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, 1857
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The Antigone, with notes
j 3. Choriamb, trimeter catalectic with an anacrusis. 4. Choriamb, dimeter catalectic. (the verse in the strophe is corrupt.) 5. Choriamb, dimeter and iambus, choriamb, dimeter catalectic. 6. Choriamb, dimeter catalectic. 7. Anacreontic verse.
Sophocles, 1837
6
A Selection of Greek Tragedies with Notes: For the Use of ...
3. Choriamb, trimeter catalectic with an anacrusis. 4. Choriamb, dimeter catalectic . (the verse in the strophe is corrupt.) 5. Choriamb, dimeter and iambus, choriamb - dimeter catalectic. 6. Choriamb, dimeter catalectic. 7. Anacreontic verse.
T. D. Woolsey, 1837
7
Lyric Metres of Greek Drama
Cola longer than the dimeter fall into two main types: those with only one choriamb, all accretions apart from the 'base' being in single-short (or dragged), and those which repeat the choriamb once or more. In the dimeter itself the pure  ...
A. M. Dale, 2010
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Strict Metrical Tradition: Variations in the Literary Iambic ...
Taken thus, as a whole, the stress-pattern of the choriamb has a number of interesting aspects or properties. The stressed syllables define the beginning and end of the figure; but they also form as it were a firm outer casing, enclosing a ...
David Keppel-Jones, 2001
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The Alcestis of Euripides: With Notes, for the Use of ...
Choriamb. trimeter. and trochee. For this close of choriambic verses see Herm. El . II. 36. 3 and 10. 2. Choriamb. dimeter hypercatalect. with basis. 3. Choriamb. dimeter catalect. with basis and cho- riambus. j. _ | i. w 4. Iamb. penthemim. and ...
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, 1872
10
The Classical Journal
... imperfect foot, containing either one or two times of a choriamb, in the middle, terminating aIWays in a whole word, and by way of close, of another trochaic base like the first, as 10rQI 330:4 3 s lore s 30l'4'Av- wAd- Mfav mero'o- epo/pom  ...

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