sonnet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.

   Shakespeare wrote a famous sonnet that begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

2. 2
   verb

   To write sonnets, or to write a sonnet about something.

   The young poet sonneted endlessly about his lost love.

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

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