Stanza

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
  • n. An apartment or division in a building.
  • n. A structural element in XML
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring, whether like or unlike, in measure.
  • n. An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Pl. stanze (-ze). In architecture, an apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber: as, the stanze of Raphael in the Vatican.
  • n. In versification, a series of lines arranged in a fixed order of sequence as regards their length, metrical form, or rimes, and constituting a typical group, or one of a number of similar groups, composing a poem or part of a poem.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    text    textual matter   
    Cross Reference
    strophe   
    Hyponym
    octave    sestet    antistrophe    envoi    quatrain    envoy    strophe    couplet    rhyme royal    ottava rima   
    Form
    stanzaic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stave    staff    strophe    sixain    terzina    tercet    pennill    quatrain    redondilla    englyn   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Braganza    Lanza    Lufthansa    bonanza    extravaganza   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    paragraph    couplet    verse    hymn    sonnet    semester    syllable    chapter    bhumi    installment