Meaning

2 senses
  1. A poem in four lines.

    a stanza of four lines

  2. A stanza of four lines.

    Example:

    Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,

    Quartett

    четверости́шиеčetverostíšije, катре́нkatrɛ́n

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a stanza of four lines:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a stanza of four lines:

Origin

Borrowed from French quatrain.

Borrowed from French quatrain.

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Forms

plural: quatrains
Singularquatrain
Pluralquatrains

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
four-line stanza:tetrastich

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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