son‧net /ˈsɒnət, ˈsɒnɪt $ ˈsɑː-/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Italian; Origin: sonetto, from Old Provençal sonet 'little song', from son 'sound, song', from Latin sonus; ⇒ sound¹]
a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
Shakespeare’s sonnets

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poem a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme:
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is the first line of a famous poem by WIlliam Wordsworth.
sonnet a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
Shakespeare’s sonnets
haiku a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables:
a haiku by Matsuo Basho about a frog jumping into a pond
limerick a short humorous poem that has five lines which rhyme:
a limerick by Edward Lear, which began ‘There was a young lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway’.
rhyme a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme:
a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations
The children were reciting a rhyme.
a nursery rhyme (=a short traditional poem or song for children)
poetry poems in general, or the art of writing them:
He reads a lot of poetry.
She wrote poetry and children’s stories.
a poetry book
verse words arranged in the form of poetry:
a book of comic verse
anthology a set of poems by different people collected together in one book:
an anthology of Caribbean poetry
stanza a group of lines in a repeated pattern, which form part of a poem:
the opening stanza of Keats’ poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

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