a fixed number of verse lines arranged in a definite metrical pattern, forming a unit of a poem a half or a quarter in a football match
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
stan•za /ˈstænzə/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. -zas.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Poetryan arrangement of a certain number of lines in a poem.
stan•za
(stan′zə),USA pronunciation n. [Pros.]
stan′zaed, adj.
stan•za•ic
(stan zā′ik),USA pronunciation stan•za′i•cal, adj.
stan•za′i•cal•ly, adv.
- Poetryan arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
- Vulgar Latin *stantia, equivalent. to Latin stant- (stem of stāns), present participle of stāre to stand + -ia -y3
- Italian: room, station, stopping-place (plural stanze)
- 1580–90;
- See verse.
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'stanza' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Alcaic
- Hudibrastic
- Rubaiyat stanza
- ST
- Sapphic
- Spenserian
- Spenserian stanza
- ballad stanza
- blues
- cabaletta
- canzone
- cinquain
- common measure
- dizain
- elegiac
- elegiac stanza
- enjambment
- envoy
- haiku
- heptastich
- heroic couplet
- heroic quatrain
- heroic stanza
- hexastich
- hokku
- hymnal stanza
- iambic
- long measure
- monorhyme
- nonstanzaic
- octave
- octonary
- ottava rima
- penillion
- pentastich
- quatrain
- redondilla
- refrain
- rune
- seguidilla
- sestina
- sextain
- st.
- stance
- stave
- strophe
- strophic
- tail
- tetrastich
- triplet