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Definition of Fourteener
1. Noun. (US climbing) A mountain rising to more than 14,000 feet above mean sea level. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fourteener
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fourteener
Literary usage of Fourteener
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)
"Still, there are worse things both in sound and to sight than the ripple round
pebbles. His fourteener. But the metre which Chapman was, if not " born to ..."
2. English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress : with Representative by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young (1904)
"The "fourteener." — The term, sonnet, has been long ago applied to another form
of fourteen lines, written by Shakespeare and others, which, though it has ..."
3. The Principles and Progress of English Poetry by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young (1904)
"The "fourteener."— The term, sonnet, has been long ago applied to another form
of fourteen lines, written by Shakespeare and others, which, though it has ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"... the rimed "fourteener" or its offspring, the common measure. We saw, in treating
of Gamelyn (which is pretty certainly older than the fifteenth century, ..."
5. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"CHAP, in PRELIMINARIES —VERSE alternate Alexandrine and fourteener rhymed in
couplets. There are also rondeaux and other lyrical forms, though few and ..."
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