OTTAVA RIMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ottava rima mean? 

• OTTAVA RIMA (noun)
  The noun OTTAVA RIMA has 1 sense:

1. a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc

  Familiarity information: OTTAVA RIMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OTTAVA RIMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ottava rima" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)