Plural of couplet
regular plural
The plural of couplet is couplets.
Forms of couplet
| Singular | couplet /ˈkʌp.lət/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | couplets |
| Countable | countable |
Couplets in a sentence
- Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.From the entry volte-face
- The sonnets' most flagrant fault lies in the bathoses into which their final couplets fall.1911, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 213, page 13. From the entry bathoses
- He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse.2009, Robert Cohen, Amateur Barbarians, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry fey
- Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal.1938 Jan, H. S. V. Jones, “Brief Mention”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 37, number 1, page 126. From the entry rhyme royal
- Robert Lowell, first announcing flatly that Racine is untranslatable, puts his Alexandrines into speakable, nontinkling English couplets, a great feat and one that goes far to contradict his own statement.1961 August, Phoebe Lou Adams, “Potpourri”, in The Atlantic. From the entry pseudo-colloquial
Meaning of couplet
- noun A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
- noun A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
- noun A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
Questions about the plural of couplet
- What is the plural of couplet?
- The plural of couplet is couplets.
- Is couplet countable?
- Couplet is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: couplet (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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