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Meaning of "iambus" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IAMBUS

iambus  [aɪˈæmbəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IAMBUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Iambus 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IAMBUS


choriambus
ˌkɒrɪˈæmbəs
columbous
kəˈlʌmbəs
Columbus
kəˈlʌmbəs
corymbous
kəˈrɪmbəs
cumulonimbus
ˌkjuːmjʊləʊˈnɪmbəs
limbous
ˈlɪmbəs
limbus
ˈlɪmbəs
lumbus
ˈlʌmbəs
nimbus
ˈnɪmbəs
numbers
ˈnʌmbəs
plumbous
ˈplʌmbəs
rhombus
ˈrɒmbəs
thrombus
ˈθrɒmbəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IAMBUS

iamb
iambi
iambic
iambic pentameter
iambically
iambist
iambographer
ianthine
IAP
Iapetus
IARU
IAS
IATA
iatric
iatrical
iatrochemical
iatrochemist
iatrochemistry
iatrogenic
iatrogenically

WORDS THAT END LIKE IAMBUS

Airbus
Arbus
autobus
bus
ceteris paribus
Cottbus
embus
globus
incubus
jacobus
Knights of Columbus
minibus
miss the bus
omnibus
postbus
rebus
school bus
shuttle bus
succubus
syllabus

Synonyms and antonyms of iambus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «iambus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IAMBUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

iambus
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

yambo
570 millions of speakers

English

iambus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

iambus
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

iambus
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ямб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

jâmbico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছন্দোবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

iambe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Iambus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jambus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

iambus
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

iambus
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Iambus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thơ 12 và 8 vế có giọng chua cay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

iambus
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आयंबस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

birinci kısa
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

giambo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

iambus
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ямб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iambus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Iambus
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

jambe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

iambus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

iambus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of iambus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IAMBUS»

The term «iambus» is normally little used and occupies the 132.511 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IAMBUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «iambus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «iambus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IAMBUS»

Discover the use of iambus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to iambus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus
Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte).
Martin Litchfield West, 1974
2
Greek Elegy and Iambus: Studies in Ancient Literary Sources
Includes summary in Polish.
Krystyna Bartol, 1993
3
Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic ...
ponax is introduced as a speaking character, addressing a new, Alexandrian audience, to the last lines of Iambus 13 and the novel use of the image of sixth- century Ephesus, Hipponax' native city, as a negative paradigm, the Iambi of ...
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, 2002
4
The Suitors in the Odyssey: The Clash Between Homer and ...
epic attack against iambus. From chapter 7 on we shall discuss the function of intertext as a perspective, as the Suitors' viewpoint in or at the Odyssey. Notes 1 Nagy G., The Best of Achaeans, Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, ...
Martin Steinrück, 2008
5
A Practical Training in English
L The ank —ers brak and the top masts lap iambus iambus anapaest iambus X X L X .L X .L It was SIC a dead -ly storm anapaest iambus iambus X X .L X .L X . L X And the waves cam o'er the brok- en ship anapaast iambus iambus iambus X  ...
Henry Arthur Kellow, 1912
6
The international cyclopaedia: a compendium of human knowledge
The various kinds of metrical feet may be enumerated as follows : Amphibrach, amphimacer, anapaest, antibac- chius, antispast, bacchius, choree, choriambus, cretic, dactyl, dichoraeus, di-iambus, dispondee, ditrochee, dochmius, epitrite, ...
Harry Thurston Peck, Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson, 1900
7
A Latin grammar for schools and colleges
The Tribrach for the Iambus, and the Dactyl9 or Anapaest2 for the Irrational Iambus, are rare, except in comedy. Note 2. — In the Ionic Dipody, the first foot has a heavier ictus than the second. 622. The Iambic Trimeter, also called Senarius, ...
Albert Harkness, 1890
8
The International Cyclopædia: A Compendium of Human ...
The various kinds of metrical feet may be enumerated as follows : Amphibrach, amphimacer, anapaest, antibac- chius, antispast, bacchius, choree, choriambus, cretic, dactyl, dichorseus, di-iambus, dispondee, ditrochee, dochmius, epitrite, ...
Harry Thurston Pech, Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson, 1900
9
Goldsmith's Traveller, with notes and a life of the poet by ...
Sweet is, trochee; the breath, iambus; of morn, iambus; her ris, iambus; ing sweet, iambus. 2. O, had I the wings of a dove. O had, iambus; I the wings, anapest; of a dove, anapest. 4. Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine. ' Crea, iambus ...
Oliver Goldsmith, Walter McLeod, 1865
10
Latin Grammar
Dispondee, double spondee, Ditrochee, double trocliee, Diiambus, double iambus, Proceleusmatic, double pyrrhic, Greater Ionic, spondee and pyrrhic, Lesser Ionic, pyrrhic and spondee, Choriambus, trochee (choree), and iambus, Antispast, ...
Albert Harkness, 1879

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Iambus [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/iambus>. Apr 2024 ».
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