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quat·rain  (kwtrn, kw-trn)

n.

A stanza or poem of four lines.

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[French, from Old French, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots.]

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quatrain [ˈkwɒtreɪn]

n

(Literature / Poetry) a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes

[from French, from quatre four, from Latin quattuor]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

quatrain - a stanza of four lines elegiac stanza - a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme heroic stanza - a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

Translations

quatrain [ˈkwɒtreɪn] N → cuarteto m, estrofa f de cuatro versos

quatrain

n → Vierzeiler m