an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
Origin: 1580–90; < It: room, station, stopping-place (pl. stanze) < VL *stantia, equiv. to L stant- (s. of stāns), prp. of stāre to stand+ -ia-y3
n. an inning in baseball or some other division of a ball game. : He's doing better than he was in the last stanza.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"group of rhymed verse lines," 1588, from It. stanza "verse of a poem," originally "standing, stopping place," from V.L. *stantia "a stanza of verse," so called from the stop at the end of it, from L. stans (gen. stantis), prp. of stare "to stand" (see stet).
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