Definitions for iambuses

iambuses i·am·bus

Spelling: [ahy-am-buh s]
IPA: /aɪˈæm bəs/

Iambuses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in iambuses (abeimssu).

Definitions for iambuses

noun

  1. iamb.

Origin of iambuses

1580-90; Latin Greek íambos

Examples for iambuses

Antispast, an′ti-spast, n. in metre, a foot composed of an iambus and a trochee.

An iambus is a two-syllable foot accented on the last syllable.

As has already been said, the iambus is the common foot of English verse.

The second pda of this stanza is wanting an iambus in its middle part.

The foot consisting of an unaccented followed by an accented syllable is called an iambus.

Such a foot is called an iambus (plural, iambuses, or the Latin iambi), and the form of verse is called iambic.

In place of the iambus, a Tribrach ( ) may stand in any foot but the last.

The metre is dochmiac, each dochmius consisting of an iambus followed by a cretic, .

He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.

In the iambic and trochaic metres other feet are often substituted for the iambus and the trochee, but without change of rhythm.

Word Value for iambuses
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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