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单词 stanza
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stanzan.

Brit. /ˈstanzə/, U.S. /ˈstænzə/
Forms: α. 1500s–1600s stanze, (1500s stands); β. 1500s–1600s stanzo; γ. 1500s– stanza. See also stance n.2 4.
Etymology: < Italian stanza standing, stopping place, room, stanza, corresponding to Spanish estancia , Portuguese estancia dwelling, room, Provençal estansa position, Old French estance (modern French étance ) stay, support < popular Latin *stantia , < Latin stant-em present participle of stāre to stand. The Italian word was adapted in French as stance , whence stance n.2; also in German as stanze.
1. Prosody. A group of lines of verse (usually not less than four), arranged according to a definite scheme which regulates the number of lines, the metre, and (in rhymed poetry) the sequence of rhymes; normally forming a division of a song or poem consisting of a series of such groups constructed according to the same scheme. Also, any of the particular types of structure according to which stanzas are framed.
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society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > [noun] > stanza of
stanza1589
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza
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baston?c1335
staff1533
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couplement1594
stance1596
stave1659
strophe1895
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1596 T. Lodge Margarite of Amer. sig. K4 The first stands is the complaint, the second the counsel.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 104 Let me heare a staffe, a stanze [printed stauze], a verse, Lege domine . View more context for this quotation
1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe v. sig. I3v This Stanze now following, alludes to the storie of Mannington.
β. 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. Av Euerie stanzo they pen after dinner, is full poynted with a stabbe.1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica v. iii. 108 From Calliope hie Stanzoes flow.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sestine, a Sestine, or stanzo of six verses.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. v. 15 Come, more, another stanzo: Cal you'em stanzo's? View more context for this quotation1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 144 The musick changes to a very solemn base..with certain stanzoes sung in praise of their deceased Ancestors.γ. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. ii. 54 Staffe in our vulgare Poesie I know not why it should be so called... The Italian called it Stanza, as if we should say a resting place.] 1595 E. C. Emaricdulfe xxxix. sig. C7 Thy name, thy honour, and loues puritie, With Stanzas, Layes and Hymnes Ile stellifie.1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars To Rdr. sig. A 3 Therefore..I chose Ariostos stanza of all other the most complete, and best proportioned, consisting of eight, sixe interwouen, and a couplet in base.1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger ii. i. 417 In euery corner they recite the pleasant Stanzaes of the gentle Furioso.1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 89 I will heereunto add further this Stanza of verses of the same quill.1674 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 7) i. ii. 35 The double Bars are set to divide the several Strains or Stanzaes [1658 Parts] of the Songs and Lessons.1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xlix The Secchia Rapita, is an Italian Poem... 'Tis written in the Stanza of Eight.1706 W. Congreve Pindarique Ode on Her Majesty's Arms Disc. sig. Ajv The Poet having made choice of a certain Number of Verses to constitute his Strophé or first Stanza, was oblig'd to observe the same in his Antistrophé, or second Stanza.1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 25 And each exalted Stanza teems with Thought!1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna Pref. p. xvi I have adopted the stanza of Spenser (a measure inexpressibly beautiful).1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak xxxiv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 72 She came,..And sang to me the whole Of those three stanzas that you made About my ‘giant bole’.1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 257 A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for.
2. In Italy, an apartment, chamber, room; spec. in plural ‖stanze /ˈstantse/, applied to certain rooms in the Vatican.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun]
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room1438
roomth1567
receipt1593
stance1632
receptacle1634
stanza1648
apartment1715
slum1819
space1921
shovel and broom1928
1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 34 At the right hand of this gallerie are severall stanzas full of Curiosities.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 79 The Agents of Serene Princes..have half a Stanza [in the Vatican].
1823 Lady Morgan Salvator Rosa (1824) I. iii. 90 A certain sympathy..between the brothers-in-law frequently carried Salvator to the stanza or work-room of Francesco.
1823 Lady Morgan Salvator Rosa (1824) I. iii. 95 Having..studied or worked in the galleries, churches, or stanze of the eminent masters in Rome.
1878 J. E. Butler Catharine of Siena vii. 200 It forms the subject of a fresco in one of the stanze of the Vatican.
3. (See quot. 1675) Obsolete.
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1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 219 Upon every stanza [i.e. ‘branch’ of an acrobat's pole] he would set a cup of water; then raysing it, he would dance with all these in like manner without spilling one drop.
4. Sport. A half or other session of a game.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > period of play
half1876
quarter1889
period1898
forty1913
stanza1945
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xvii. 299 In football news we find..first or second stanza, the first or second half of a game.
1974 News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 22 Apr. 10- a/5 Comfort Control warmed their bats up in the final three stanzas to gain the victory.
1981 National Times (Austral.) 25 Jan. 23/3 There is also a growing habit of describing the next half or quarter of a football match as a ‘stanza’—perhaps because it is so poetic.

Compounds

stanza-form n. the form of a stanza (sense 1); arrangement in stanzas.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > arrangement in stanzas
stanza-form1927
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > form of a stanza
stanza-form1927
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 293 There were variants of the normal stanza-forms.
1957 E. T. Cone in N. Frye Sound & Poetry i. 6 Zelter, keeping close to the unusual stanza-form..produces a top-heavy musical period.
1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 16 The catalectic effect in English or German is a function of the particular stanza-form.
1978 Early Music 6 629/1 A large number of ‘wasted pages’..are taken up with setting out the poetic texts in stanza form.

Derivatives

ˈstanzaed adj. (in parasynthetic derivatives), having (a specified number of) stanzas.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > stanzaic > having specific number of stanzas
stanzaed1755
1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 78 He..hit off an epigram or a three stanzaed song with some reputation.
1868 Chronicle No. 43. 67/1 The nine-stanzaed hymn.
ˈstanza v. transitive to write stanzas upon.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > compose part of poem [verb (transitive)]
stanza1796
1796 C. Lamb Final Mem. i. 199 (To Coleridge) Dyer stanza'd him in one of the papers t'other day.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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