stanzaic

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adjective

Of or pertaining to stanzas.

“a couplet in stanzaic form”

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Meanings

adjectivestanzaic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to stanzas.

    a couplet in stanzaic form

    1 more example

    […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.

    2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68

Origin

From stanza + -ic.

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APA

stanzaic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stanzaic

MLA

“stanzaic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stanzaic. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stanzaic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stanzaic.

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