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stanza

noun
/ˈstænzə/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *sth₂éh₁yeti✻
  2. derived from *staēō✻
  3. derived from stans
  4. derived from *stantia✻
  5. borrowed from stanza

Definitions

  1. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph

    A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.

  2. An apartment or division in a building.

  3. An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.

    2. A segment

      A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.

    3. A period

      A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

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Derived

Burns stanza, interstanza, Monk's Tale stanza, Spenserian stanza, stanzaed, stanzaic, stanzalike

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stanza. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA