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Word entry · 6 letters

stanza

Best crossword clue

"verse unit"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈstænzə/Part of speech nounSorted aanstzStarts with SEnds with A2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

Word origin

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.

Used in a sentence

  • “Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.”
  • “Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]”
  • “Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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01“verse unit”6 letters
02“Verse section”6 letters

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