Quatrain

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quatrain \Quat"rain\, n. [F., fr. quatre four, L. quattuor,
     quatuor. See {Four}.] (Pros.)
     A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  quatrain
       n : a stanza of four lines

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "quatrain":
     Spenserian stanza, antistrophe, book, burden, canto, chorus,
     couplet, distich, envoi, epode, heptastich, hexastich, line,
     measure, monostich, octastich, octave, octet, ottava rima,
     pentastich, refrain, rhyme royal, septet, sestet, sextet, stanza,
     stave, strain, strophe, syllable, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich,
     triplet, tristich, verse