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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A group of three lines of verse, often rhyming together or with another triplet.
  2. n. Music See triplet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In music, same as triplet.
  2. n. In poetry, a group of three riming lines; a triplet.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a three-line stanza in a poem

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mus.) A triplet.
  2. n. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

Etymologies

  1. French, from Italian terzetto, from diminutive of terzo, third, from Latin tertius; see trei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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