cou·plet (k p l t)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. [French, from Old French, diminutive of couple, couple; see couple.] |
couplet [ˈkʌplɪt]
n
(Literature / Poetry) two successive lines of verse, usually rhymed and of the same metre
[from French, literally: a little pair; see couple]
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| Noun | 1. |  couplet - two items of the same kind 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 |
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