limerick

Definition of Limerick in English :

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Noun

1. limerick

port city in southwestern Ireland

2. limerick

a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Limerick

see synonyms of limerick

noun

a form of comic verse consisting of five anapaestic lines of which the first, second, and fifth have three metrical feet and rhyme together and the third and fourth have two metrical feet and rhyme together

noun

1.

a county of SW Republic of Ireland, in N Munster province: consists chiefly of an undulating plain with rich pasture and mountains in the south. County town: Limerick. Pop: 175 304 (2002). Area: 2686 sq km (1037 sq miles)

2.

a port in SW Republic of Ireland, county town of Limerick, at the head of the Shannon estuary. Pop: 86 998 (2002)

Limerick

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1.

county in SW Ireland, in Munster province: 1,037 sq mi (2,686 sq km); pop. 110,000

2.

its county seat: pop. 75,000

noun

a nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, now often bawdy, usually with the rhyme scheme aabba, the first, second, and fifth lines having three stresses, the third and fourth having two: the form was popularized by Edward Lear (Ex.: There was a young lady named Harris, / Whom nothing could ever embarrass / Till the bath salts one day / In the tub where she lay / Turned out to be plaster of Paris)

Limerick

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A city of southwest Ireland on the Shannon River estuary. It was an important Norse settlement in the 9th and 10th centuries and was taken by the English in the late 12th century.

n.

A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five usually anapestic lines with the rhyme scheme aabba, in which the first, second, and fifth lines are in trimeter, and the third and fourth lines are in dimeter.

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