Definition:
- (n.) A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.
Compare iambus with other words:
antispast vs. iambus
diiambus vs. iambus
iamb vs. iambus