Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A group of three lines of verse, often rhyming together or with another triplet.
- n. Music See triplet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In music, same as triplet.
- n. In poetry, a group of three riming lines; a triplet.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) A triplet.
- n. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
Etymologies
- 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)
Examples
“For all their disarticulation, Morrison's poems employ an elaborate formal fiction. "please advise stop" is one of fifty-four poems with the same title and three-tercet form.”
“Fisher arranges the lines into 6 couplets and a tercet, a variation on the form known as the couplet sonnet.”
“I'm less taken with "like a bad suit," in the first tercet, which I take as the poet's own construct.”
“It's fun to have some words (those with which a tercet ends) hang ambiguously for a moment, and for others (those which begin the following tercet) come out of a silence.”
“When I first read the poem, I put in a slight pause after each tercet.”
“This sets the stage for a listing of stanzaic forms moving from the couplet, through the tercet to finally arriving at the ode and unusual forms such as the sequidilla and the haiku, etc.”
THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO
“Jukka considers Randion screpts a haynaku collection though the tercet word-count goes 2, 1, 3.”
“Viewing the poem as such, we see this rhyme scheme: ABCBDED how creepy is the last tercet.”
“But its form is obviously not new, per the above tercet.”
“The basic haynaku is a tercet comprised of a one-word line, two-word line, then three-word line.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tercet’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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GRE words plus
Words that will probably only come in handy for the GRE or whatnot.
matutinal, foment, peremptory, credal, simony, cloture, syncretism, salubrious, fordable, semiotic, phratry, adduction and 95 more...
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Bibliophilia
codex, matrix, patrix, caesura, incunabulum, syllabic, pictograph, scribe, vernacular, iambic, trochaic, pentameter and 36 more...
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trinity words
triumvir, tierce, sesterce, trinity, trammel, trephine, tercel, tercet, tertian, tricrotic, tritone, triad and 58 more...
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poetic notions
villanelle, sestina, acrostic, sonnet, corona of sonnets, wreath of sonnets, ode, octave, quatrain, couplet, tercet, terza rima and 41 more...
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palavra' no má'
infinitesimal, coy, sobriquet, cognomen, succinct, secularism, ubiquitous, antithesis, tercet, adjudged, void for vagueness, surfeit and 69 more...
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3s
triune, triplicity, trinary, trine, trimontane, triplet, tristich, triple, triad, triarchy, trigraphy, trilogue and 10 more...
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studying for the GRE Literature in En...
apostrophe, assonance, cacophony, caesura, closed couplet, consonance, dactyl, didactic, enjambment, epigram, epigraph, euphony and 14 more...
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