Meanings
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1
noun
two successive lines of verse that form a unit, often sharing a meter and rhyme
The poem ends with a rhyming couplet that summarizes its argument.
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2
noun
a pair of corresponding or connected things
The biologist treated the two observations as a useful couplet.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French couplet, a diminutive of couple, ultimately Latin copula, 'bond or connection.' In verse it came to name a pair of lines bound together by form or meaning.