Sonnet /(?)/
Son·net
Sonnet
n.
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A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.]
He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius.
- A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.
Sonnet
v. i.
- To compose sonnets.