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Definition of Couplet
1. Noun. Two items of the same kind.
Terms within: Fellow, Mate
Generic synonyms: 2, Deuce, Ii, Two
Specialized synonyms: Doubleton
Derivative terms: Couple, Pair, Pair
2. Noun. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed.
Specialized synonyms: Closed Couplet, Heroic Couplet
Generic synonyms: Stanza
Definition of Couplet
1. n. Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.
Definition of Couplet
1. Noun. (literature) A pair of lines with rhyming end words. ¹
2. Noun. A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Couplet
1. a pair of successive lines of verse [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Couplet
Literary usage of Couplet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"His couplet, and its form—The "gradus epithet"—The Pastorals—The Messiah and
Windsor Forest—The Essay on Criticism and The Rape of the Lock— The Elegy on an ..."
2. The History of England from the Restoration to the Death of William III by Richard Lodge (1910)
"CHAP, place in the history of literature as the founder of the classical school,
and as the introducer of the self-contained rhymed couplet. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Well seconded by F. couplet in his journeys with a Chinaman through Italy, France,
... Louis XIV. who had several times received Father couplet and Michael, ..."
4. Res Metrica: An Introduction to the Study of Greek & Roman Versification by William Ross Hardie (1920)
"It is a variation upon the heroic hexameter, in the direction of lyric poetry;
the couplet is a short stanza or strophe, and elegiac poets can be classed ..."
5. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"... were now couched in the metre known as the elegiac couplet. ... Greek word
for this couplet, elegion, was naturally of later origin than the word ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"... lends all its bitterness to Pope's well-known couplet:— “Let Budgell charge
low Grub Street on my quill, And write whate'er he please —except ray Will. ..."
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