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Webster 1913 Edition

Quatrain

Quat′rain

,

Noun.

[F., fr.

quatre

four, L.

quattuor

,

quatuor

. See

.]

(Pros.)

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Quatrain

QUAT'RAIN

,

Noun.

[L. quatror, four.]

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

Definition 2025

quatrain

quatrain

English

Noun

quatrain ‎(plural quatrains)

a poem in four lines
a stanza of four lines

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,

Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:

And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught

The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.

Translations

a stanza of four lines

Chinese:
Mandarin: 四行詩 (zh), 四行诗 (zh) ‎(sìhángshī), 四行連, 四行连 ‎(sìhánglián)
Czech: čtyřverší n
French: quatrain (fr) m
German: Quartett (de) n
Indonesian: pantun (id)
Italian: quartina f
Japanese: 四行連 ‎(よんぎょうれん, yongyōren), クウォートレイン ‎(kuōtorein), クワトレイン ‎(kuwatorein)
Persian: رباعی (fa) ‎(robâ'i)

Portuguese: quarteto (pt) m, quadra (pt) f
Russian: четверости́шие (ru) n ‎(četverostíšije), катре́н (ru) m ‎(katrɛ́n)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: катрен m

Roman: katren (sh) m
Spanish: cuarteto
Swedish: quatrain c, kvadernar, kvatrin c, fyrrading c
Tagalog: kuwarteta
Turkish: dörtlük (tr)
Vietnamese: thơ bốn câu

See also

French

Etymology

From quatre ‎(“four”) +‎ -ain.

Noun

quatrain m ‎(plural quatrains)

quatrain (stanza of four lines)