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mimiambs

mimiambs is the plural of mimiamb.

Meaning of mimiamb

Noun

mimiamb (plural mimiambs)

  1. (rare, Ancient Greece) A short humorous dramatic scene in verse.
    • Its discovery, after a sleep of some five centuries and a half, will be as great a surprise to meteorologists as a new classical text, such as the ‘Mimiambs’ of Herondas, to Greek scholars.1891 November 28, The Athenæum, number 3344, London: J. Lection, →OCLC, page 726
    Synonyms:
    mimiambus

Questions about mimiambs

What is mimiambs the plural of?
Mimiambs is the plural of mimiamb.

Words near mimiambs in the dictionary

  1. Mimi
  2. mimiamb
  3. mimiambi
  4. mimiambic
  5. mimiambics
  6. mimiambs
  7. mimiambus
  8. mimic
  9. mimic beetle
  10. mimic beetles
  11. mimic function

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