1. of, relating to, or composed in choriambs (a metrical foot consisting of four syllables with the pattern long-short-short-long)
Usage: technical; prosody; classical literature

Examples

• The poet employed a choriambic meter in several stanzas of the classical ode.
• Choriambic verse was popular in ancient Greek and Latin poetry.
• The choriambic foot creates a distinctive rhythmic pattern when read aloud.
• Scholars analyzed the choriambic structure of the Sapphic fragments.