/kan zoh"nee/ ; It. /kahn tsaw"ne/ . n. , pl. canzones, canzoni /-nee/
1. a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.
2. a poem in which each word that appears at the end of a line of the first stanza appears again at the end of one of the lines in each of the following stanzas.
Also, canzona .
[ 1580-90; cantionem, acc. sing. of cantio song; see CANTO, -ION ]