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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stanza or strophe consisting of seven lines.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In prosody, a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of seven lines or verses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Pros.) A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun poetry A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.

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