ELEGIAC COUPLET

Meaning of ELEGIAC COUPLET in English

■ noun a pair of lines consisting of a dactylic hexameter and a pentameter, used especially in Greek and Latin verse.

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ELEGIAC COUPLET — noun ( technical ) a pair of lines, one with six strong or long syllables and one with five, found …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ELEGIAC COUPLET — Дистих
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
ELEGIAC — (-íac) adj elegiac (l. [Pros.]; 2. mournful, melancholy)
Interlingua English vocab
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
COUPLET — noun Etymology: Middle French, diminutive of Old French cuple, couple Date: 1580 two successive lines of verse forming a unit …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
COUPLET — Two successive lines of verse. A couplet is marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a self-contained …
Английский словарь Британика
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
COUPLET — ˈkəplə̇t noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle French, diminutive of couple pair — more at couple 1. : two successive …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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
COUPLET — (n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Английский словарь Webster
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
COUPLET — ( n. ) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Webster's Revised 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
COUPLET — /kup"lit/ , n. 1. a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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
COUPLET — n. two rhyming lines of verse (Poetry)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
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
COUPLET — noun Etymology: Middle French, diminutive of Old French cuple, couple Date: 1580 1. : two successive lines of verse forming …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ELEGIAC — noun elegiac verse. 2. elegiac ·adj used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a …
Webster English vocab
COUPLET — noun two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Webster English vocab
ELEGIAC — [ ˌɛlɪ'dʒʌɪək ] ■ adjective relating to or characteristic of an elegy. ↘wistfully mournful. ■ noun ( ~s ) verses …
Concise Oxford English vocab
COUPLET — ■ noun a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length. Origin C16: from Fr., …
Concise Oxford 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
COUPLET — [cou.plet] n [MF, dim. of cople] (1580) 1: two successive lines of verse forming a unit marked usu. by rhythmic …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
COUPLET — a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning. A couplet may be formal …
Britannica English vocabulary
ELEGIAC — elegiac BrE AmE ˌel ɪ ˈdʒaɪ‿ək ◂ -ə-, -æk ▷ elegiac|s s ▶ ˌ ele ˌ giac ˈ couplet BrE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
COUPLET — couplet BrE AmE ˈkʌp lət -lɪt ▷ couplet|s s
Longman Pronunciation 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
COUPLET — / ˈkʌplət; NAmE / noun two lines of poetry of equal length one after the other : a poem written …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — el ‧ e ‧ gi ‧ ac /ˌeləˈdʒaɪək◂, ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək◂/ BrE AmE adjective literary showing that you feel sad about someone …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COUPLET — coup ‧ let /ˈkʌplət, ˈkʌplɪt/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1500-1600 ; Language: French ; Origin: Old French cople …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ELEGIAC — adj. & n. --adj. 1 (of a metre) used for elegies. 2 mournful. --n. (in pl.) verses in an elegiac …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
COUPLET — n. Prosody two successive lines of verse, usu. rhyming and of the same length. [F dimin. of couple, formed as …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ELEGIAC — adj. & n. adj. 1 (of a metre) used for elegies. 2 mournful. n. (in pl.) verses in an elegiac …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
COUPLET — n. Prosody two successive lines of verse, usu. rhyming and of the same length. [ F dimin. of couple, formed …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ELEGIAC — adj. & n. --adj. 1. (of a metre) used for elegies. 2 mournful. --n. (in pl.) verses in an elegiac …
Oxford English vocab
COUPLET — n. Prosody two successive lines of verse, usu. rhyming and of the same length. Etymology: F dimin. of couple, formed …
Oxford English vocab
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
COUPLET — ( couplets) A couplet is two lines of poetry which come next to each other, especially two lines that rhyme …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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
COUPLET — (~s) A ~ is two lines of poetry which come next to each other, especially two lines that rhyme with …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
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
COUPLET — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES heroic couplet rhyming couplets (= pairs of lines that end in words that rhyme ) …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ELEGIAC — [adjective]
Cambridge English vocab
COUPLET — [noun] [C] - two lines of poetry next to each other, esp. ones which rhyme and have the same length …
Cambridge English vocab
COUPLET — n. Two successive lines of verse. A couplet is marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ELEGIAC — Synonyms and related words : Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dirgelike, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
COUPLET — Synonyms and related words : Spenserian stanza, antistrophe, book, both, brace, burden, canto, chorus, couple, distich, double harness, doublet, duad, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
COUPLET — n. Two verses ( especially that rhyme ), pair of rhymes, distich.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
COUPLET — n. a rhyming ~
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
ELEGIAC — a элегический, грустный elegiac pl элегические стихи ~ элегический; грустный
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
COUPLET — сущ. рифмованное двустишие рифмованное двустишие (архитектура) двухсветное окно (музыкальное) дубль couplet рифмованное двустишие
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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
COUPLET — couplet.ogg ʹkʌplıt n 1. рифмованное двустишие 2. архит. двухсветное окно 3. муз. дубль
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
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
COUPLET — - key couplet
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
COUPLET — - key couplet
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
ELEGIAC — a элегический, грустный elegiac pl элегические стихи ~ элегический; грустный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
COUPLET — сущ. рифмованное двустишие рифмованное двустишие (архитектура) двухсветное окно (музыкальное) дубль couplet рифмованное двустишие
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь

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