ELEGIAC STANZA

Meaning of ELEGIAC STANZA in English

noun

: a quatrain in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

ELEGIAC STANZA — a four-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming alternately. Also called heroic stanza .
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ELEGIAC STANZA — in poetry, a quatrain in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming. Though the older and more general term for this …
Britannica English vocabulary
STANZA — [I] n [Pros.] stanza
Interlingua English vocab
ELEGIAC — (-íac) adj elegiac (l. [Pros.]; 2. mournful, melancholy)
Interlingua English vocab
STANZA — stance
English interlingue dictionary
STANZA — estropa
English-Visayan vocabulary
STANZA — noun see: stance Date: 1589 a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ELEGIAC — also ~al adjective Etymology: Late Latin ~us, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeion Date: 1542 1. of, relating to, or consisting …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ELEGIAC — I. |elə̇|jīək, -lē|- also -īˌak; also ə̇ˈlējēˌak or ēˈlē- adjective also el·e·gi·a·cal |elə̇|jīəkəl, -lē|- Etymology: Late Latin elegiacus, from Greek …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STANZA — ˈstanzə, -aan- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Italian, act or place of staying, abode, room, stanza, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STANZA — (n.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Английский словарь Webster
STANZA — (n.) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, …
Английский словарь Webster
ELEGIAC — (n.) Elegiac verse.
Английский словарь Webster
ELEGIAC — (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
Английский словарь Webster
ELEGIAC — (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Английский словарь Webster
STANZA — ( n. ) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STANZA — ( n. ) A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — ( n. ) Elegiac verse.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — ( a. ) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — ( a. ) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
STANZA — — stanzaed , adj. — stanzaic /stan zay"ik/ , stanzaical , adj. — stanzaically , adv. /stan"zeuh/ , n. Pros. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — /el'i juy"euhk, -ak, i lee"jee ak'/ , adj. Also, elegiacal . 1. used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
STANZA — n. group of lines forming one division of a poem
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
ELEGIAC — adj. sad, mournful (also elegiacal)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
ELEGIAC — n. elegy, lament, dirge, mournful poem
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
STANZA — noun Etymology: Italian, stay, abode, room, stanza, from Vulgar Latin * stantia stay — more at stance Date: 1589 : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ELEGIAC — i-ˈlē-jē-ˌak adjective also el·e·gi·a·cal ˌe-lə-ˈjī-ə-kəl Etymology: Late Latin elegiacus, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeion Date: 1542 1. a. : of, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STANZA — noun an apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber. 2. stanza ·noun a number of lines or …
Webster English vocab
ELEGIAC — noun elegiac verse. 2. elegiac ·adj used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a …
Webster English vocab
STANZA — [ 'stanzə ] ■ noun a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem. ↘a group …
Concise Oxford English vocab
ELEGIAC — [ ˌɛlɪ'dʒʌɪək ] ■ adjective relating to or characteristic of an elegy. ↘wistfully mournful. ■ noun ( ~s ) verses …
Concise Oxford English vocab
STANZA — [stan.za] n [It, stay, abode, room, stanza, fr. (assumed) VL stantia stay--more at stance] (1588): a division of a poem …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ELEGIAC — [ele.gi.ac] also el.e.gi.a.cal adj [LL elegiacus, fr. Gk elegeiakos, fr. elegeion] (1542) 1 a: of, relating to, or consisting of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
STANZA — a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit. More specifically, a stanza …
Britannica English vocabulary
STANZA — stanza BrE AmE ˈstænz ə ▷ stanza|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — elegiac BrE AmE ˌel ɪ ˈdʒaɪ‿ək ◂ -ə-, -æk ▷ elegiac|s s ▶ ˌ ele ˌ giac ˈ couplet BrE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STANZA — / ˈstænzə; NAmE / noun ( technical ) a group of lines in a repeated pattern that form a unit …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — / ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək; NAmE / adjective ( formal or literary ) expressing sadness, especially about the past or people who have …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STANZA — stan ‧ za /ˈstænzə/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Language: Italian ; Origin: 'place to stay, room, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ELEGIAC — el ‧ e ‧ gi ‧ ac /ˌeləˈdʒaɪək◂, ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək◂/ BrE AmE adjective literary showing that you feel sad about someone …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STANZA — n. 1 the basic metrical unit in a poem or verse consisting of a recurring group of lines (often four …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ELEGIAC — adj. & n. --adj. 1 (of a metre) used for elegies. 2 mournful. --n. (in pl.) verses in an elegiac …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
STANZA — n. 1 the basic metrical unit in a poem or verse consisting of a recurring group of lines (often four …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — adj. & n. adj. 1 (of a metre) used for elegies. 2 mournful. n. (in pl.) verses in an elegiac …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
STANZA — n.1 the basic metrical unit in a poem or verse consisting of a recurring group of lines (often four lines …
Oxford English vocab
ELEGIAC — adj. & n. --adj. 1. (of a metre) used for elegies. 2 mournful. --n. (in pl.) verses in an elegiac …
Oxford English vocab
STANZA — ( stanzas) A stanza is one of the parts into which a poem is divided. ( TECHNICAL ) N-COUNT
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — Something that is elegiac expresses or shows sadness. ( LITERARY ) The music has a dreamy, elegiac quality. ADJ
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STANZA — (~s) A ~ is one of the parts into which a poem is divided. (TECHNICAL) N-COUNT
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
ELEGIAC — Something that is ~ expresses or shows sadness. (LITERARY) The music has a dreamy, ~ quality. ADJ
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
STANZA — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adding insult to injury, a double cross awaits our luckless hero in the final stanza …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ELEGIAC — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ elegiac verse EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ELEGIAC — [adjective]
Cambridge English vocab
STANZA — Synonyms and related words : Spenserian stanza, anacrusis, antistrophe, bass passage, book, bourdon, bridge, burden, cadence, canto, chorus, coda, couplet, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
ELEGIAC — Synonyms and related words : Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dirgelike, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
STANZA — сущ.; просодика станс, строфа Syn : strophe (стихосложение) строфа - ballad * балладная строфа обыкн. (архитектура) лоджия обыкн. (архитектура) комната …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ELEGIAC — a элегический, грустный elegiac pl элегические стихи ~ элегический; грустный
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
STANZA — stanza.ogg _I ʹstænzə n стих. строфа ballad stanza - балладная строфа _II ʹstænzə n ( pl -ze) обыкн. pl архит. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
ELEGIAC — elegiac.ogg ͵eıʹdʒaıək,(ə)l a 1. элегический elegiac(al) distich - элегический дистих elegiac(al) stanza - строфа из четырёх строк, написанная пятистопным ямбом; …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
STANZA — stanza сущ.; просодикастанс, строфа Syn:strophe
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
STANZA — _I ʹstænzə n стих. строфа ballad stanza - балладная строфа _II ʹstænzə n ( pl -ze) обыкн. pl архит. 1> …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
ELEGIAC — a 1. элегический elegiac(al) distich - элегический дистих elegiac(al) stanza - строфа из четырёх строк, написанная пятистопным ямбом; схема рифм …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
STANZA — сущ.; просодика станс, строфа Syn : strophe (стихосложение) строфа - ballad * балладная строфа обыкн. (архитектура) лоджия обыкн. (архитектура) комната …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
ELEGIAC — a элегический, грустный elegiac pl элегические стихи ~ элегический; грустный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь

Webster's New International English Dictionary

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