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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stanza or strophe consisting of seven lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of seven lines or verses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poetry A
composition consisting ofseven lines orverses .
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