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Definition of "couplet" [coup•let]

  • A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. (noun)
  • Two similar things; a pair. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "couplet" in a sentence
  • "The wasteful Burnside-Couch traffic "couplet" is having a "groundbreaking" tomorrow afternoon -- at least, the east side section of it."
  • "Most poems are odes or odes-in-spirit that marvel at the qualities of a creature in couplet quatrains or another traditional form."
  • "That first couplet is too perfect for explanation."