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COUPLET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("couplet" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

Meronyms (parts of "couplet"):

line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "couplet"):

closed couplet (a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit)

heroic couplet (a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Two items of the same kind

Synonyms:

brace; couple; couplet; distich; duad; duet; duo; dyad; pair; span; twain; twosome; yoke

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("couplet" is a kind of...):

2; deuce; II; two (the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number)

Meronyms (parts of "couplet"):

fellow; mate (one of a pair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "couplet"):

doubleton ((bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player)

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