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PRONUNCIATION OF HUITAIN

huitain  [wiːˈteɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HUITAIN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Huitain is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HUITAIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Octave (poetry)

An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter or of hendecasyllables. The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is abba abba. An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a contrasting sestet. In traditional Italian sonnets the octave always ends with a conclusion of one idea, giving way to another idea in the sestet. Some English sonnets break that rule, often to striking effect. In Milton's Sonnet 19, the sestet begins early, halfway through the last line of the octave: When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.

Definition of huitain in the English dictionary

The definition of huitain in the dictionary is A French verse form of eight lines or sets of lines of 8 or 10 syllables rhyming ababbcbc or abbaacac.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HUITAIN


appertain
ˌæpəˈteɪn
Aquitaine
ˌækwɪˈteɪn
ascertain
ˌæsəˈteɪn
attain
əˈteɪn
contain
kənˈteɪn
detain
dɪˈteɪn
distain
dɪsˈteɪn
entertain
ˌɛntəˈteɪn
Fonteyn
fɒnˈteɪn
intermontane
ˌɪntəmɒnˈteɪn
maintain
meɪnˈteɪn
obtain
əbˈteɪn
pertain
pəˈteɪn
preobtain
ˌpriːəbˈteɪn
reattain
ˌriːəˈteɪn
reobtain
ˌriːəbˈteɪn
retain
rɪˈteɪn
state-maintained
ˌsteɪtˈmeɪnˈteɪn
transmontane
ˌtrænzmɒnˈteɪn
ultramontane
ˌʌltrəmɒnˈteɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HUITAIN

huh
Huhehot
huhu
hui
huia
huic
huipil
huisache
huissier
hula
Hula Hoop
hula skirt
hula-hula
hulk
hulking
hulks
hulky
hull
hull down
hull-less

WORDS THAT END LIKE HUITAIN

Battle of Britain
Britain
captain
certain
curtain
for certain
fountain
Great Britain
mainland Britain
Maritain
mountain
New Britain
stain
sustain
tain
Tate Britain
the Battle of Britain
the Black Mountain
the Mountain
uncertain

Synonyms and antonyms of huitain in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «huitain» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HUITAIN

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Translator English - Chinese

huitain
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huitain
570 millions of speakers

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huitain
510 millions of speakers

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huitain
380 millions of speakers
ar

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huitain
280 millions of speakers

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huitain
278 millions of speakers

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huitain
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

huitain
260 millions of speakers

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huitain
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Huitain
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huitain
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

huitain
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Translator English - Korean

huitain
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Huitain
85 millions of speakers
vi

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huitain
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எட்டு வரிச் செய்யுள் தொகுதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हियटेन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

huitain
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

huitain
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

huitain
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

huitain
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

huitain
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

huitain
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huitain
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

huitain
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

huitain
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of huitain

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HUITAIN»

The term «huitain» is used very little and occupies the 181.520 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HUITAIN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about huitain

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUITAIN»

Discover the use of huitain in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to huitain and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Les paraboles Maistre Alain en françoys
684–91 a huitain of octosyllables — rhyme scheme abbaabba in which lines 5–8 are repeated from lines 1–4 of the preceding stanza. 692–703 a douzain of octosyllables — rhyme scheme ababbccddede. 704–11 a huitain of octosyllables  ...
Alanus (de Insulis), Tony Hunt, 2005
2
Unlocking the Poem
A particular form of octave is the Huitain. The huitain is an eight-line stanza with either eight-syllable or ten-syllable lines; it uses only three rhymes with one of these appearing four times and the same rhyme appearing on the fourth and fifth  ...
Ottone M. Riccio, Ellen Beth Siegel, 2009
3
Conjunctures: Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly
7 An important reference to the Old Testament occurs earlier in the poem (T 48), in the famous citation of Dens laudem, Psalm 108/109; as Kuhn notes (pp. 145- 46, 187-88), huitain XIII is all the more prominent because it contains the first direct ...
Keith Busby, Norris J. Lacy, 1994
4
Tielman Susato and the Music of His Time: Print Culture, ...
[12a] Mes bons peres religieulx, a4, anon, 1545 16 Text: huitain (epigram); Victor Brodeau (Marot, Oeuvres) Other settings: none [12b] Tu di Marotte par tes raisons , Responce, a4, anon, 1545 16 Text: huitain; Geoffrey Faubert (Marot, Oeuvres) ...
Keith Polk, 2005
5
Chartier in Europe
less) in lines 262 and 264 connects the generic proverb back to the word play earlier in the huitain and points up the game-like quality of the stanza with its series of alternations, modifications, and substitutions. The Belle Dame immediately ...
Emma Cayley, Ashby Kinch, 2008
6
Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536
120 Christine de Pisan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, ed. A. J. Kennedy and K. Varty ( Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, ). See also Fraioli, Joan of Arc, –. 121 Ditié, , huitain . 122 Ibid.
Norman Housley, 2002
7
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Continuing to write in the idiom of Creacionismo in such novels as Sdliro o el poder de las palabras (1939; "Satyr or the Power of Words"), Huidobro also remained a prolific poet in that style long after the movement had faded. huitain \ w»e-'te"\ ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
8
The Poetry of François Villon: Text and Context
I should like now - having nailed my colours to the mast and disclaimed 'identity', ' coherence' and 'message' as keys - to turn to that reading via a phrase in the huitain which follows, huitain xlii, one of the interpretative cruces of the Testament  ...
Jane H. M. Taylor, 2001
9
Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France
The mentor's "tant heureux pouvoir" in Pernette's huitain, however, provokes very different circumstances: the initial hierarchy between lover and beloved collapses and is supplanted by reciprocal "contentement." The temporality of each poem ...
Cathy M. Yandell, 2000
10
Maurice Scève Poet of Love
The dizain is a difficult form since it is short and compressed, mid-way between the huitain and the sonnet, avoiding the maxim-like quality of the former but lacking the amplitude and possibilities of symmetry and contrast of the latter.
Dorothy Gabe Coleman, 2010

REFERENCE
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