Couplet Definition

kŭplĭt
couplets
noun
couplets
Two successive lines of poetry, esp. two of the same length that rhyme.
Webster's New World
A couple; pair.
Webster's New World
A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
5th Street is one-way west only and 6th Street is one-way east only. Together, they form a couplet in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Noun

Singular:
couplet
Plural:
couplets

Origin of Couplet

  • French from Old French diminutive of couple couple couple

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French couplet

    From Wiktionary

Couplet Sentence Examples

  • His handling of the elegiac couplet, and especially of its second line, deserves especial recognition.

  • The children's book contained a short couplet on each page.

  • With regard to the form of the poem, Rutilius handles the elegiac couplet with great metrical purity and freedom, and betrays many signs of long study in the elegiac poetry of the Augustan era.

  • A couplet does not have to rhyme, but poetry is more entertaining to children when rhymes are used.

  • Marlowe gave new vigour to the couplet.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOU

Words Ending With

TETLET

Unscrambles

couplet

Words Starting With C and Ending With T

Starts With C & Ends With TStarts With CO & Ends With TStarts With C & Ends With ET

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With C7 Letter Words Ending With T