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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PANTOUM

Via French from Malay pantun.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PANTOUM

pantoum  [pænˈtuːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PANTOUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pantoum 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 PANTOUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pantoum

The pantoum is a poetic form derived from the pantun, a Malay verse form: specifically from the pantun berkait, a series of interwoven quatrains.

Definition of pantoum in the English dictionary

The definition of pantoum in the dictionary is a verse form consisting of a series of quatrains in which the second and fourth lines of each verse are repeated as the first and third lines of the next.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PANTOUM


assume
əˈsjuːm
bathroom
ˈbɑːθˌruːm
Batum
bɑːˈtuːm
bedroom
ˈbɛdˌruːm
boardroom
ˈbɔːdˌruːm
boom
buːm
classroom
ˈklɑːsˌruːm
costume
ˈkɒstjuːm
disentomb
ˌdɪsɪnˈtuːm
entomb
ɪnˈtuːm
Khartoum
kɑːˈtuːm
Khartum
kɑːˈtuːm
resume
rɪˈzjuːm
room
ruːm
tomb
tuːm
toom
tuːm
untomb
ʌnˈtuːm
volume
ˈvɒljuːm
whom
huːm
zoom
zuːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PANTOUM

pantographically
pantography
pantomime
pantomime dame
pantomimic
pantomimical
pantomimically
pantomimist
panton
pantophagist
pantophagous
pantophagy
pantophobia
pantopragmatic
pantoscope
pantoscopic
pantothenate
pantothenic acid
pantoufle
pantries

WORDS THAT END LIKE PANTOUM

album
aluminium
at a premium
Belgium
cum
datum
forum
hum
khoum
maximum
medium
minimum
museum
petroleum
platinum
premium
soum
stadium
sum
um

Synonyms and antonyms of pantoum in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pantoum» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PANTOUM

Find out the translation of pantoum to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pantoum from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pantoum» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pantoum
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pantoum
570 millions of speakers

English

pantoum
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pantoum
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pantoum
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pantoum
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pantoum
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pantoum
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pantoum
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pantoum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pantoum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pantoum
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pantoum
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pantoum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pantoum
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pantoum
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॅंटोम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pantoum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pantoum
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pantoum
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pantoum
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pantoum
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ΠΑΝΤΟΥΜ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pantoum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pantoum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pantoum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pantoum

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PANTOUM»

The term «pantoum» is normally little used and occupies the 125.497 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PANTOUM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pantoum» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pantoum» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANTOUM»

Discover the use of pantoum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pantoum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's ...
Using. the. Endless. Step. Pantoum. for. Found. Poetry. 2. T. here are many ways poets choose to organize their words. Many times poems and song lyrics use effective repetition to create a sense of rhythm, to emphasize important words as an ...
Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli, 2007
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A Companion to Poetic Genre
“In Town” is the only pantoum considered in this essay to conform to the stricture that the final line of a pantoum should repeat word for word the first, though Dobson neglects to observe the rule that the unrepeated first and third lines in the first ...
Erik Martiny, 2011
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No Planets Strike
Pantoum. for. Houston. (Director's. Cut). Well here we are in love again & don't you fly & hide your pretty face from me, Houston. I haven't had hands in thirteen years. When I had hands, there was a pink planet hidden inside a pretty face, ...
Josh Bell, 2008
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Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002), a ...
With its structure of repetition and variation the pantoum provides both an obsessive rhythm and a number of odd collocations derived from the ever- changing context in which the fixed repetitions must occur. The shadowboxes constructed by ...
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez, 2003
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Poetry from the Heart
It started out as a folk poem, which contained rhyming couplets that were recited or sung. Later, Western writers changed the form to a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas (or quatrains). In a pantoum, the second and fourth lines ...
DenHagan, 2013
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Mutes & Earthquakes: Bill Manhire's Creative Writing Course ...
'Cashpoint: A Pantoum' was written as an exercise piece during the Original Composition workshop. (See 'The Pantoum', p. 288, and 'Found Poems', p. 292, in 'The Exercise Chapter'.) 'Waterford IF, a sestina, makes some reference to ...
Bill Manhire, 1997
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Girls' Literacy Experiences in and Out of School: Learning ...
TABLE 2.3 Pantoum with Accompanying Explanation for My Name Is Sally Little Song (Christina Stabile) I keep singing my songs Though fear is always on my mind The heat of the sun keeps beating on my back And the days keep passing by ...
Elaine O'Quinn, 2013
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3 AM Epiphany
In a pantoum, the second and fourth lines of each quatrain become the first and third lines ofthe next quatrain. In the last stanza the first line ofthe poem reappears as the last line ofthe poem. The structure ofa pantoum (where A, B, C, etc., are ...
Brian Kiteley, 2005
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Famous
Pantoum. for. Jane. Goodall. The hunters dream of eating Jane Goodall for breakfast. 31 Jane dreams chimpanzees spring from her forehead. Jane wakes and barely escapes into the forest when the hunters' stomachs rumble like premature ...
Kathleen Flenniken, 2006
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Poetry for All Seasons: Poems, Forms and Styles
Pantoum. Poems. Born February 26, 1802 in Besancon, France, Victor-Marie Hugo is credited for introducing the Malaysian Pantun to European writers. He died on May 22, 1885. His burial spot is in Paris, France. He was a French poet, ...
Paterika Hengreaves

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PANTOUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pantoum is used in the context of the following news items.
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Poet will discuss Great Lakes shipwrecks July 6 in Bay View
Michigan Composer Philip Rice set one of her shipwreck poems – a pantoum about the wreck of the Rouse Simmons – to music. That work was ... «Petoskey News-Review, Jun 15»
2
2015 Poetry Month: An Interview With John Ashbery
Your sestina, "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape," and your pantoum, "Hotel Lautréamont," are the first two examples of these ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
3
Long publishes poetry chapbook
... that about poetry,” she said – but others relate to animals or people in her life, like “Pantoum for John,” about her husband, John Ponte. «Napa Valley Register, Mar 15»
4
A trial by fire for young BSO conductor at Strathmore
I'm sure that no one onstage had ever seen this arrangement before, and Hersh struggled to maintain order in the multilayered “Pantoum” ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
5
That Bird Has My Wings: An Acrostic Pantoum About Death Row …
Listen to Carolyne Wright read her touching poem, “That Bird Has My Wings,” and don't miss the author's note below on why her acrostic ... «Truthdig, Feb 15»
6
St Valentine's Day books: better than a box of chocolates
Wilson makes clever use of the four-steps-forward, two-steps-back nature of the pantoum form. I need to quote two stanzas (fourth and fifth) to ... «Daily Review, Feb 15»
7
BCMS's Mostly "French Connection" at Fitzgerald Theater
Pantoum: assiz vif, the second movement, leapt off the stage glinting all the way. It danced; it reverberated, and stirred in wondrous delirium, the ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jan 15»
8
Can an Arvon writing retreat turn me into a writer?
We become so confident that we end up tackling a fiendish little confection known as a pantoum in which lines from one verse are repeated in ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 14»
9
The Art of Silence: Poets to Read All Summer
The pantoum, a poetic form reliant on a repetition pattern similar to the villanelle, derives from the fifteenth century Malaysian folk-song, pantun, and its meaning ... «Stay Thirsty Media, Jun 14»
10
Partisan inspiration: Donald Hall inspires Twitter poets
... spread far and wide. A Boston Globe reporter even reached out to Brown's campaign, perhaps expecting a terse pantoum or biting limerick. «Concord Monitor, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Pantoum [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pantoum>. Apr 2024 ».
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