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distich

/ˈdɪstɪk/

distich noun: a couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.

Noun

distich (plural distichs)

  1. A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
    • Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’.2012, Christer Henriksén, A Commentary on Martial, Epigrams Book 9, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 282
  2. Any couplet.

Adjective

distich (not comparable)

  1. Distichous.

distich meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

distich in Tamil

இரண்டே வரிகள் உடைய செய்யுள், ஈரடி, குறள், இரண்டடிக்கண்ணி, திபதை, திபிதை

distich in Urdu

دوہا

distich in Bengali

distich, lyric
পদ pod

Forms of distich

pluraldistichs

Origin of distich

From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).

Words formed from distich

Questions about distich

What does distich mean?
Distich means a couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
What is distich in Tamil?
Distich in Tamil is இரண்டே வரிகள் உடைய செய்யுள், ஈரடி, குறள். See Distich meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is distich?
Distich can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce distich?
Distich is pronounced /ˈdɪstɪk/.
What is the plural of distich?
The plural of distich is distichs.

Words near distich in the dictionary

  1. disthronizes
  2. disthronizing
  3. disti-
  4. distibine
  5. distibines
  6. distich
  7. distichal
  8. distiches
  9. distichia
  10. distichiae
  11. distichias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distich (page history and authors); distich (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distich (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); পদ (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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