Meaning

6 senses
  1. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

    Strophe

    строфа́strofá, стансstans

    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

  2. An apartment or division in a building.

  3. An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

  4. A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.

  5. A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.

  6. A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Write a poem with four three-line stanzas.

    ruНапиши стих с четырьмя строфами по три строки в каждой.

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  2. I find the third stanza weak.

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  3. Write a poem with three four-line stanzas.

    ruНапишите стихотворение, состоящее из трех четырехстрочных строф.

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  4. The song is long, it has five stanzas.

    deDas Lied ist lang, es hat fünf Strophen.

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  5. The same line is repeated in each stanza.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a unit of a poem:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a unit of a poem:

Origin

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin s

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

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