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Definition: Couplet |
CoupletNoun1. Two items of the same kind. 2. A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "couplet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Mining | Genetically related paired sedimentary laminae, generally occurring in repeating series, as varves, but applied to laminated nonglacial shales,evaporites, and other sediments as well. (references) |
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A couplet is also a pair of rhyming lines within a longer stanza.
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Synonyms: CoupletSynonyms: brace (n), couple (n), distich (n), doubleton (n), duad (n), duet (n), duo (n), dyad (n), pair (n), span (n), twain (n), twosome (n), yoke (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Couplet |
| English words defined with "couplet": closed couplet ♦ Discrete proportion ♦ Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet ♦ heroic couplet ♦ Riding rhyme ♦ Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Stanzaic ♦ Villanelle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "couplet": die ♦ hermetically sealed compressor unit ♦ leonine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Couplet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (verse), French (jingle, stanza, verse). |
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The couplet does not cease to be, nor does its meaning change. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He replied to each discharge by a couplet. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line. |
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| "Couplet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Couplet" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 97 | 33,269 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "couplet": closed couplet ♦ heroic couplet. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
couplet poem | 46 |
couplet | 31 |
the heroic couplet | 10 |
couplet poetry | 7 |
couplet rhyming | 4 |
couplet heroic poem | 3 |
couplet example | 3 |
couplet definition | 2 |
couplet example poem | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "couplet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kuplet (distich), çift vargjesh, çift (conjugate, couple, double, doublet, duet, match, pair, span, twin, two, twosome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | куплет. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 對聯 (vertical written couplet usually placed along either side of a doorway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dvojverší (distich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دوبیتی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verspaar, duole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δίστιχο (distich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פזמון (ballad, ditty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rímes verspár. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | untai sajak, bait sajak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | distico (distich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 連句 (linked verse), 聯句 (linked verse), 対聯 (distich), 対句 (antithesis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいれ" (distich), ついく (antithesis), れ"く (linked verse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lieh-ronney (distich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oupletcay casal (couple, married couple, pair, twosome), par de versos, par (bond, couple, duet, duetto, even, fellow, oxbow, pair, peer, twain). (various references) cuplet (verse). (various references) куплет, двустишие (distich). (various references) kuplet. (various references) copla popular, copla (ballad, verse), versos pareados. (various references) rimmat verspar. (various references) beyit (distich), çift mısra. (various references) римований двовірш. (various references) cwpled. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "couplet": couplets. (additional references) | |
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"Couplet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: copule, copulent, couble, coulpe, coupel, coupet, coupla, Courlach, cuple, cuplet, cupple, jopplety. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "couplet" (pronounced 'Coup"let'): Armlet, Ballet, Batlet, Beamlet, Bendlet, Birdlet, Bloodlet, Booklet, Bracelet, Bractlet, Branchlet, Brooklet, Budlet, Bullet, Camlet, Cantlet, Chainlet, Chamlet, Cloudlet, Corselet, Corslet, Croslet, Cross-crosslet, Crownlet, Cutlet, Finlet, Flamelet, Fortlet, Frislet, Frondlet, frontlet, Giblet, Goblet, gullet, Hamlet, Haslet, Inlet, islet, kinglet, leaflet, Liplet, Lobelet, mallet, Martlet, millet, Mountlet, Murrelet, necklet, Notelet, Nutlet. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: octuple. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: couple, tupelo. | |
-2 letters: clept, clout, coupe, culet, cupel, letup, loupe, poult. | |
-3 letters: celt, clop, clot, clue, cole, colt, cope, cote, coup, cult, cute, lept, lope, loup, lout, luce, lute, pelt, plot, poet, pole, pout, puce, pule, tole, tolu, tope, tule. | |
-4 letters: cel, cep, col, cop, cot, cue, cup, cut, ecu, let, leu, lop, lot. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: copulate, couplets, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, poultice. | |
+2 letters: copulated, copulates, corpulent, octuplets, peculator, pocketful, poulticed, poultices. | |
+3 letters: cantaloupe, colporteur, computable, conceptual, copulative, couplement, eucalyptol, leucoplast, lumpectomy, operculate, peculation, peculators, pleustonic, pocketfuls, pocketsful, speculator. | |
+4 letters: autocephaly, cantaloupes, colporteurs, copulatives, corpulently, corruptible, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, counterplot, counterploy, couplements, cupellation, eucalyptole, eucalyptols, exculpation, exculpatory, intercouple, leucoplasts, luteotropic, neuroleptic, operculated, patchoulies, peculations, speculation, speculators, uncompleted. | |
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