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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkwɒt.ɹeɪn/ Forms: quatrains [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French quatrain. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|quatrain}} French quatrain Head templates: {{en-noun}} quatrain (plural quatrains)
  1. A poem in four lines.
    Sense id: en-quatrain-en-noun-fhUkthX2
  2. A stanza of four lines. Categories (topical): Four, Prosody Synonyms (four-line stanza): tetrastich Translations (a stanza of four lines): رُبَاعِيّ (rubāʕiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), ռուբայի (ṙubayi) [neuter] (Armenian), четиристишие (četiristišie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), quartet [masculine] (Catalan), quarteta [feminine] (Catalan), 四行詩 /四行诗 (sìhángshī) (Chinese Mandarin), 四行連 /四行连 (sìhánglián) (Chinese Mandarin), čtyřverší [neuter] (Czech), kwatrijn [neuter] (Dutch), katrään (Estonian), nelisäe (Finnish), quatrain [masculine] (French), Quartett [neuter] (German), pantun (Indonesian), quartina [feminine] (Italian), 四行連 (yongyōren) (alt: よんぎょうれん) (Japanese), クウォートレイン (kuwōtorein) (Japanese), クワトレイン (kuwatorein) (Japanese), katrenas [masculine] (Lithuanian), çarîne [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), رباعی (robâ'i) (Persian), czterowiersz [masculine] (Polish), tetrastych [masculine] (Polish), kwartyna [feminine] (Polish), quarteto [masculine] (Portuguese), quadra [feminine] (Portuguese), catren [neuter] (Romanian), четверости́шие (četverostíšije) [neuter] (Russian), катре́н (katrɛ́n) [masculine] (Russian), катрен [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), katren [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), cuarteto (Spanish), quatrain [common-gender] (Swedish), kvadernar (Swedish), kvatrin [common-gender] (Swedish), fyrrading [common-gender] (Swedish), kuwarteta (Tagalog), dörtlük (Turkish), thơ bốn câu (Vietnamese)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: couplet, tercet, terzain, cinquain, sestet, septet, octave

Noun [French]

IPA: /ka.tʁɛ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-quatrain.wav Forms: quatrains [plural]
Etymology: From quatre (“four”) + -ain. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|quatre|-ain|gloss1=four}} quatre (“four”) + -ain Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} quatrain m (plural quatrains)
  1. quatrain (stanza of four lines) Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Four, Poetry

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:"
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          "text": "And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
      "word": "nelisäe"
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      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
      "word": "pantun"
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
      "word": "cuarteto"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
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    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
      "word": "kuwarteta"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
      "word": "dörtlük"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a stanza of four lines",
      "word": "thơ bốn câu"
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