couplet (redirected from Couplets)

cou·plet  (kplt)

n.

1. 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.

2. Two similar things; a pair.

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[French, from Old French, diminutive of couple, couple; see couple.]

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couplet

Noun

two successive lines of verse, usually rhyming and of the same metre

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	couplet - two items of the same kind           distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, twain, twosome, brace, pair, span, yoke, couple fellow, mate - one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" 2, II, two, deuce - the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number doubleton - (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player
	2.	couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed line of poetry, line of verse - a single line of words in a poem closed couplet - a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit heroic couplet - a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

Translations

couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] n → pareado

couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] n → distique m

couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] n → Verspaar nt

couplet [ˈkʌplɪt] n → distico