quatrain

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈkwɒtreɪn/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈkwɑtreɪn/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(kwo′trān)


WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
quat•rain /ˈkwɑtreɪn/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Poetrya stanza or poem having four lines, usually with alternating rhymes.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
quat•rain  (kwo′trān),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Poetrya stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
  • Latin -ānus -an
  • Latin quattuor) + -ain
  • French, equivalent. to quatre four (
  • 1575–85

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
quatrain /ˈkwɒtreɪn/ n
  1. a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes
Etymology: 16th Century: from French, from quatre four, from Latin quattuor
'quatrain' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
villanelle - analyzed rhyme - cinquain - elegiac quatrain - heroic quatrain - pantoum - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The - Rubaiyat stanza

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