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Synonyms for couplet


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuhp-lit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌp lɪt



Définition of couplet

Origin :
  • 1570s, in poetry, from French couplet (mid-14c.), a diminutive of couple (see couple (n.)). In music, from 1876.
  • noun pair
Example sentences :
  • When he came to the couplet I have given you, what do you think he sang?
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • It was, however, to the regularity of Pope's couplet that most translators aspired.
  • Extract from : « Early Theories of Translation » by Flora Ross Amos
  • Revolts against the couplet, then, were few and generally unsuccessful.
  • Extract from : « Early Theories of Translation » by Flora Ross Amos
  • The couplet he immediately repudiates as an enemy to fidelity.
  • Extract from : « Early Theories of Translation » by Flora Ross Amos
  • The antics Palmer cut while delivering this couplet were truly amusing.
  • Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
  • When he took Ismail in 1790 he sent this couplet to Empress Catherine.
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) » by Augustus de Morgan
  • Stay, stay, I have just recollected the beginning of the second couplet.
  • Extract from : « Ten Years Later » by Alexandre Dumas, Pere
  • In Marlowe's copy the couplet must have been very different.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Christopher Marlowe
  • The couplet is so great that, where thou art, —Thou being a poem—it is past my art.
  • Extract from : « Silverpoints » by John Gray
  • Couplet tried to explain that the time for taking it had expired on August 26.
  • Extract from : « France and the Republic » by William Henry Hurlbert

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