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sonnet noun & verb. M16.
[French, or its source Italian sonetto dim. of suono sound.]
A. noun. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic lines, using any of various formal rhyme schemes and usu. having a single theme. More widely (now rare), a short poem or piece of esp. lyrical and amatory verse. M16.
Comb.: sonnet-sequence a set of sonnets with a common theme or subject.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Compose sonnets. L16.
verb trans. Address sonnets to; celebrate in a sonnet or sonnets. L16.
sonnetize verb intrans. & trans. = SONNET verb L18.
sonnetry noun sonnet-making L16.