'Limerick' definitions:
Definition of 'Limerick'
(from WordNet)
noun
Port city in southwestern Ireland
noun
A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
Definition of 'Limerick'
From: GCIDE
- Limerick \Lim"er*ick\ (l[i^]m"[~e]r*[i^]k), n. [Said to be from a song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name Limerick.] A humorous, often nonsensical, and sometimes risq['e] poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet, and rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rhyme.
- Note: It often begins with "There once was a . . ." or "There was a . . ."; as
- There was a young lady, Amanda, Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de Si[`e]cle, I deem But her Journal Intime Was what sent her papa to Uganda. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Synonyms of 'limerick'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bucolic,
- canso,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay