from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
- n. Two similar things; a pair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A pair of lines with rhyming end words.
- n. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In prosody, two lines in immediate succession, usually but not necessarily of the same length, forming a pair, and generally marked as such by riming with each other.
- n. In music, two equal notes inserted in the midst of triple rhythm to occupy the time of three; a temporary displacement of triple by duple rhythm.
- n. One of a pair, as of twins; a twin.
- n. In Gothic arch., a double window; one having two lights only and these of the same size and style.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
- n. two items of the same kind
French, from Old French, diminutive of couple, couple; see couple.(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)