Sonnet
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
- 2 a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme wordnet
- 1 To compose sonnets. intransitive
"strains that come almost to sonneting"
- 2 compose a sonnet wordnet
- 3 To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about. transitive
- 4 praise in a sonnet wordnet
Example
More examples"On the 25th of March of 2022, I was eating at the Lulu Island pizzeria, whilst Rose the Filipina vendor and a white lady customer, who was sitting at a corner table, talked about mortgages and vacations to the Philippines. They were yelling across the room. I went to the cafe, and on the way, I said hello to my Ukrainian friend Joanne. At the cafe, Karina the Russian made my iced black tea, which I drank. At home, on my Social Media, I watched Patrick Stewart's videos on Shakespeare sonnet readings, as I had been doing for some days. The videos were done in Southern California."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
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