stanza

Meaning

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

Synonyms

verse

strophe

poem

stave

couplet

quatrain

rhyme

section

node

note

paragraph

passage

poetry

rime

segment

strain

tune

turn

turning

turnover

twiddle

verticil

wind

winding

wrest

hendecasyllable

part

single verse

bend

canto

curve

joint

limerick

line

measure

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈstænzə/

Etymology

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.