Associations to the word «Stanza»

Wiktionary

STANZA, noun. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
STANZA, noun. (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
STANZA, noun. (computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.

Dictionary definition

STANZA, noun. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky