Definitions for sonnet

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sonnet son·net

Spelling: [son-it]

IPA: /ˈsɒn ɪt/

Sonnet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in sonnet (ennost).

Definitions for sonnet

noun

1. Prosody. a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.

verb (used with object)

1. Older Use. to celebrate in a sonnet or sonnets.

verb (used without object)

1. Archaic. to compose sonnets.

Origin of sonnet

1550-60; Italian sonnetto Old Provençal sonet, equivalent to son poem (Latin sonus sound¹) + -et -et

Examples for sonnet

Is it possible to follow up a school-shooting episode with lines from sonnet 116?

I must needs try my new-fledged pinions in sonnet, elogy, and madrigal.

Here we have "the pretty follies" which is used again as "pretty wrongs" in sonnet 41.

He also gave me a copy of the sonnet and a tracing of his son's photograph.

It contrasts "foe and friend," just as the sonnet contrasts "love and hate."

The new book celebrates the sonnet's uneven return to grace.

Take any sonnet at haphazard, and you will hear the rage of his desire.

Shakespeare told us the truth about himself when he wrote in sonnet 142, "Love is my sin."

That Tasso had a cat we know because he wrote a sonnet to her.

In sonnet 136 he prays her to allow him to be one of her lovers.