distich
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
Definition of distich
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
“Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’.”
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noun
-
A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
“Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’.”
- Any couplet.
adj
- (not-comparable)Distichous.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).
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