Associations to the word «Stanze»

Wiktionary

STANZA, noun. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
STANZA, noun. (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
STANZA, noun. (computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

Dictionary definition

STANZA, noun. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats