Usually means: Metrical foot, one unstressed syllable.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. iamb: Merriam-Webster
  2. iamb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. iamb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. iamb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. iamb: Vocabulary.com
  6. iamb: Wordnik
  7. iamb: Wiktionary
  8. iamb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. iamb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. iamb: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Iamb, iamb: Dictionary.com
  12. Iamb (foot), Iamb (poetry): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. iamb: Rhymezone
  14. Iamb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. iamb: FreeDictionary.org
  16. iamb: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. iamb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. iamb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Iamb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  20. Iamb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  21. iamb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  22. iamb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. IAMB: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. iamb: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IAMB: Acronym Finder
  2. iamb: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. iamb: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See iambic as well.)

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noun:  (prosody) A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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