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6 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
originFrom 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.
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