Usually means: Fourteen-line rhymed poetic form.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word sonnet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sonnet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sonnet: Merriam-Webster
  3. sonnet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sonnet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sonnet: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sonnet: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sonnet, sonnet: Wordnik
  8. sonnet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sonnet: Wiktionary
  10. sonnet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sonnet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sonnet: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sonnet: Dictionary.com
  14. sonnet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sonnet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sonnet (The Verve song), Sonnet (disambiguation), Sonnet (software), Sonnet (song), Sonnet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sonnet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sonnet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sonnet: Rhymezone
  20. Sonnet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sonnet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sonnet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sonnet: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sonnet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sonnet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sonnet: Literary Terms
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  3. SONNET: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sonnet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sonnet: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sonnet: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sonneting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
verb:  (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
verb:  (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

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