Stanza

Definition: Stanza

Stanza

Noun

1. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.

Date "stanza" was first used: 1588. (references)

Etymology: Stanza \Stan"za\, noun; plural Stanzas. [Italian stanza room, habitation, stanza, i. e., stop, from the Latin expression stans, present participle of stare to stand. See Stand, and compare to Estancia, Stance, Stanchion.]. (Websters 1913)

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.

In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. The term means "room" in Italian. A stanza may have a self-contained rhyme scheme or be made up a fixed number of lines (see distich/couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain/quintain, sestet) or in modern poetry be an arbitrary unit defined by publishing conventions such as white space or punctuation.

Crosswords: Stanza

English words defined with "stanza": Chant royal, Common meter, couplet ♦ Edmund Spenser, envoi, envoy ♦ Long meter ♦ Mesymnicum ♦ ode, ottava rima ♦ quatrain ♦ rhyme royal ♦ Sextain, Short meter, Spenser, Spenserian, Spenserian stanza, Stanzas, Stike ♦ Tetracolon, Tetrastich, Triolet ♦ Villanelle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "stanza": Attics, Attic Storey ♦ Brent-goose ♦ Catkins, Corinth's Pedagogue ♦ Fa', Fairy Land, Friday, an Unlucky Day ♦ Gods ♦ Hagan of Trony, Hotch-potch ♦ Mauthe Dog ♦ Rumolt. (references)

Etymologies containing "stanza": Estancia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Stanza" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (stanza), Italian (apartment, living room, living-room, room, sitting-room, stanza), Lombard (chamber, room), Sicilian (room).

Domain	Title
Books	Chilton's Nissan Stanza, 200Sx, 240Sx 1982-92 Repair Manual (Chilton's Total Car Care) (reference) Nissan Stanza Automotive Repair Manual: 1982 Thru 1990 (Book #981) (reference) Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura : Meaning and Invention (reference) Selected Couplets from the Sakhi in Transversion: 400-Odd Verses in Lambic Tetrameter Stanza Form (reference) Stanza My Stone: Wallace Stevens and the Hermetic Tradition (reference) (more book examples)

Music	II Cielo in Una Stanza [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Stanza" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.44% of the time. "Stanza" is used about 128 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)	98.44%	126	28,512
Noun (proper)	1.56%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	128	N/A

Expressions using "stanza": elegiac stanza ♦ heroic stanza ♦ spenserian stanza. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "stanza": stanza-form, stanza-linking.
	Ending with "stanza": six-stanza.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "stanza"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		strofë (quatrain, strophe, tetrastich, verse), pjesë loje (half, period). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقطع شعري (stave, verse). (various references)

Bulgarian		строфа (stave, strophe, verse), станса. (various references)

Chinese		一節詩 . (various references)

Czech		strofa (stave, verse), sloha. (various references)

Farsi		قطعه بندگردان , تهلیل (Tag), بندشعر (Stave), بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Levee, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Link, Manacle, Noose, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Sling, Snare, Tie, Trawl, Weir, Wristband). (various references)

Finnish		säkeistö. (various references)

French		strophe (stave, strophe), couplet. (various references)

German		Stanze (die, punch, stamp). (various references)

Greek		στροφή ποιήματοσ, στροφή (bend, curve, stave, turn, turning, turnover, twiddle, twist, verticil, wind, winding, wrest). (various references)

Hebrew		חרוז�" (strophe). (various references)

Hungarian		strófa (stave, strophe, verse), versszak (stave, verse). (various references)

Indonesian		madah (eulogy, praise), bait (abode, distich, verse), babak (act, round, stage). (various references)

Italian		strofa (strophe), stanza (apartment, living room, living-room, room, sitting-room). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		スケ番 (bar, energy, free-standing bar, grandstand play, grandstanding, leader of a female gang, road reflector, scoop, scope, scoping, scopophilia, score, scoreboard, scorebook, scorecard, scorer, scoring position, Scotch, Scotch egg, Scotch tape, Scotch terrier, Scotch tweed, Scotch whiskey, Scotland, Scotland Yard, scotophobin, Scott, shovel, Skopolamin, skunk, spade, squall, squawker, stability, stabilizer, staccato, stack, stacking permanent wave, stack-object, stack-pointer, stackware, stadium, stadium jumper, staff, stag film, stag party, stagflation, Stalinism, stamina, stamp, stamp collection, stance, stand, standard, standard number, standards, standby, standby passenger, stand-in, standing start, standing wave, standoff, standpoint, stand-up collar, Stanford, star, star guide, star king, star player, star sapphire, star system, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Watching, starch, stardom, stardust, staring lineup, starlet, starlight, Stars and Stripes, start, start dash, start line, starter, starting block, starting member, starting pitcher, static, statistics, statue, Sterling block, Sterling engine, stout, stub, studio, studless tire, study, stuff, stuffed egg, stun, stun gun, stunt car, stunt man, style, style file, stylebook, styling, stylish, stylist, stylus, stymie), 一節 (a joint, a tune, a verse, measure, note, paragraph, passage, section, strain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひとふし (a joint, a tune, a verse, measure, note, paragraph, passage, section, strain), いっせつ (a joint, a tune, a verse, another report, measure, note, paragraph, passage, section, strain), スタンザ . (various references)

Manx		rane (track, verse). (various references)

Pig Latin		anzastay

Portuguese		estrofe (strophe, verse), estância (verse). (various references)

Romanian		strofã (stave, strophe, verse), stanţã. (various references)

Russian		строфа (strophe, tetrastich), станс. (various references)

Scottish		ceathramh (fourth, fourth part, num. the fourth, quatrain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		strofa (strophe), stanca. (various references)

Spanish		estrofa (stave, strophe, verse). (various references)

Swedish		strof (stave, strophe, verse), stans (die, punch). (various references)

Turkish		kıta (battalion, canto, continent, continental, corps, detachment, quatrain, stave, strophe, verse), dörtlük (crotchet, quatrain, verse). (various references)

Turkmen		kuplet (r) (verse). (various references)

Ukrainian		строфа (strophe, verse), лоджія. (various references)

Vietnamese		thơ tứ tuyệt (short metre), khổ thơ Xtăngxơ, đoạn thơ (strophe). (various references)

Welsh		pennill (verse), ban (arm, branch, corner, lofty, loud, part of line, peak, quarter, verse). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	strophe. (various references)
Italian	900-Modern	stanza. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "stanza": stanzaed, stanzaic, stanzas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Stanza" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cuanza, ostensam, sanza, Sanzio, Sanzo, sazan, settanta, Shahnaz, stana, standa, stanze, stanzs, stenza, Stranka, Tanzi, Tsanga. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "stanza" (pronounced sta"nzu)
4	-a" n z u	bonanza, extravaganza.
3	-n z u	influenza, kwanza.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-n-s-t-z"
	-1 letter: antas, azans.
	-2 letters: anas, ansa, anta, ants, azan, tans.
	-3 letters: aas, ana, ant, sat, tan, tas.
	-4 letters: aa, an, as, at, na, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-n-s-t-z"
	+1 letter: stanzas, tarzans.
	+2 letters: stanzaed, stanzaic, tzarinas, zacatons.
	+3 letters: atrazines, bartizans, fantasize, metazoans, nizamates, partizans, tzarevnas.
	+4 letters: amazements, amazonites, anatomizes, anthozoans, fantasized, fantasizer, fantasizes, magazinist, manzanitas, stargazing, tantalizes, tanzanites.
	+5 letters: amazonstone, antagonizes, fanaticizes, fantasizers, fantasizing, italianizes, magazinists, naturalizes, standardize, stargazings, tantalizers.
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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Il Tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave (1972)
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
nissan stanza	100	92 nissan stanza	5
stanza	62	buffet la stanza	4
line six stanza	27	87 nissan stanza	4
automotive manual nissan repair stanza	18	nissan stanza engine	4
1992 nissan stanza	16	stanza body kit	4
nissan stanza 1991	15	ballad stanza	4
poem stanza	15	del figlio la stanza	4
1990 nissan stanza	12	91 nissan stanza	3
nissan stanza part	11	1989 nissan stanza	3
1987 nissan stanza	11	stanza station wagon	3
nissan stanza body kit	8	nissan performance stanza	3
la stanza	7	stanza part	3
nissan stanza wagon	7	nissan part performance stanza	3
poetry stanza	6	del la pittore stanza	3
sonnet stanza	6	1991 nissan part stanza	3
nissan picture stanza	6	la restaurant stanza	3
1988 nissan stanza	5	example stanza	3
datsun stanza	5	stanza wagon	2
history nissan stanza	5	1984 nissan stanza	2
final poem stanza	5	4 poem stanza	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Stanza

Definition: Stanza

Stanza

Noun

Synonyms within Context: Stanza

Poetry

Specialty Definition: Stanza

Crosswords: Stanza

Modern Usage: Stanza

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Books

Music

Use in Literature: Stanza

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Usage Frequency: Stanza

Expression: Stanza

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stanza

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Rhyming with "Stanza"

Anagrams: Stanza

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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