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OTTAVA RIMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ottava rima mean?
• OTTAVA RIMA (noun)
The noun OTTAVA RIMA has 1 sense:
1. a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc
Familiarity information: OTTAVA RIMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ottava rima" is a kind of...):
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)
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