Definitions for quatrains

quatrains quat·rain

Spelling: [kwo-treyn]
IPA: /ˈkwɒ treɪn/

Quatrains is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 395 anagrams from letters in quatrains (aainqrstu).

Definitions for quatrains

noun

  1. a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

Origin of quatrains

1575-85; French, equivalent to quatre four (Latin quattuor) + -ain Latin -ānus -an

Examples for quatrains

To be sure, he had originally composed this quatrain for Ophelia; but what would you have?

Suppose every writer of a quatrain in America should send his whole product to us.

The Mull in return wrote and presented a quatrain to me inFol.

In a quatrain the lines which do not rhyme must end on the opposite tone to that of the rhyme.

Who was the most erotic poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, when the quatrain reached its courtly zenith?

The first quatrain of this poem is inscribed on the Battle Monument at Concord.

But times have changed and like everything else the quatrain has grown respectable.

The Bodleian quatrain pleads Pantheism by way of Justification.

This quatrain is translated from two ruba'iyat in the Ouseley MS., 13 and 80.

The sense may be complete in the couplet, but must be complete in the quatrain.

Word Value for quatrains
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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