COUPLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does couplet mean? 

• COUPLET (noun)
  The noun COUPLET has 2 senses:

1. two items of the same kind

2. a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

  Familiarity information: COUPLET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUPLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two items of the same kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

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

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

The couplet does not cease to be, nor does its meaning change.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)