Associations to the word «Stanze»

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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne