(technical) (of rhythm in poetry) in which one short or weak syllable is followed by one long or strong syllable:
a poem written in iambic pentameters (= in lines of ten syllables, five short and five long)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for iambic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is iambic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, iambic is tagged as adjective.
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