VILLANELLE

Meaning of VILLANELLE in English

[ ˌvɪlə'nɛl ]

■ noun a pastoral or lyrical poem of nineteen lines, with only two rhymes throughout, and some lines repeated.

Origin

C19: Fr., from Ital. villanella , feminine of villanello 'rural'.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

VILLANELLE — noun Etymology: French, from Italian villanella Date: 1877 a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
VILLANELLE — ˌviləˈnel noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, from Italian villanella : a chiefly French poem having typically five tercets and …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
VILLANELLE — (n.) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating …
Английский словарь Webster
VILLANELLE — (pl. ) of Villanella
Английский словарь Webster
VILLANELLE — ( pl. ) of Villanella
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
VILLANELLE — ( n. ) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
VILLANELLE — /vil'euh nel"/ , n. Pros. a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
VILLANELLE — noun Etymology: French, from Italian villanella Date: 1877 : a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
VILLANELLE — pl of villanella. 2. villanelle ·noun a poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse …
Webster English vocab
VILLANELLE — [vil.la.nelle] n [F, fr. It villanella] (1877): a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
VILLANELLE — rustic song in Italy, where the term originated (Italian villanella from villano: peasant); the term was used in France to …
Britannica English vocabulary
VILLANELLE — villanelle BrE AmE ˌvɪl ə ˈnel ▷ villanelle|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
VILLANELLE — n. a usu. pastoral or lyrical poem of 19 lines, with only two rhymes throughout, and some lines repeated. [F …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
VILLANELLE — n. a usu. pastoral or lyrical poem of 19 lines, with only two rhymes throughout, and some lines repeated. [ …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
VILLANELLE — n. a usu. pastoral or lyrical poem of 19 lines, with only two rhymes throughout, and some lines repeated. Etymology: …
Oxford English vocab
VILLANELLE — вилланель (лирическое стихотворение в старофранцузской поэзии)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
VILLANELLE — Вилланель
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
VILLANELLE — n вилланель ( лирическое стихотворение в старофранцузской поэзии )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
VILLANELLE — (n) вилланель
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
VILLANELLE — n вилланель ( лирическое стихотворение в старофранцузской поэзии )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
VILLANELLE — n вилланель ( лирическое стихотворение в старофранцузской поэзии )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
VILLANELLE — вилланель (лирическое стихотворение в старофранцузской поэзии)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
VILLANELLE — n. Pronunciation: ˌ vi-l ə - ' nel Function: noun Etymology: French, from Italian villanella Date: 1877 : a chiefly …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
VILLANELLA — noun (plural villanelle) Etymology: Italian, from villano villein, peasant, from Medieval Latin villanus Date: 1596 a 16th century Italian part-song …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
VIRELAY — noun also vir·e·lai ˈvirəˌlā ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French virelai, alteration (influenced by lai lay) of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
VILLANELLA — /vil'euh nel"euh/ ; It. /veel'lah nel"lah/ , n. , pl. villanelle /-nel"ee/ ; It. /-nel"le/ . a rustic Italian part …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
VILLANELLA — secular Italian composition of the Renaissance, usually for three voices, with no characteristic stanzaic design or poetic form other than …
Britannica English vocabulary
RHYME — also spelled rime the correspondence of two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one …
Britannica English vocabulary
PANTOUM — a Malaysian poetic form in French and English. The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming abab in which …
Britannica English vocabulary
WINTERSON, JEANETTE
Britannica English vocabulary
PASSERAT, JEAN — born Oct. 18, 1534, Troyes, Fr. died Sept. 14, 1602, Paris French poet, author of some elegant and tender verse, …
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BISHOP, ELIZABETH — born February 8, 1911, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. died October 6, 1979, Boston, Massachusetts American Pulitzer-Prize winning poet known for her …
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