Usually means: Group of lines in poem.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word stanza:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. stanza: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stanza: Merriam-Webster
  3. stanza: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stanza: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stanza: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stanza: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stanza, stanza: Wordnik
  8. stanza: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stanza: Wiktionary
  10. stanza: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stanza: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stanza: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stanza: Dictionary.com
  14. stanza: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stanza: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stanza (computing), Stanza (disambiguation), Stanza: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stanza: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stanza: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stanza: Rhymezone
  20. Stanza, stanza: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stanza: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stanza: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stanza: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stanza: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stanza: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. STANZA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. stanza: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. STANZA: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stanza: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stanza: The Folk File
  2. Stanza: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See stanzaic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (poetry) A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
noun:  (architecture) An apartment or division in a building.
noun:  (computing) An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
noun:  (computing) A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
noun:  (broadcasting) A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
noun:  (sports) A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

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