- REFRAIN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of REFRAIN is curb, restrain How to use refrain in a sentence
- REFRAIN | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
REFRAIN definition: 1 to avoid doing or stop yourself from doing something: 2 a short part of a song or poem that is… Learn more
- REFRAIN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
REFRAIN definition: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus See examples of refrain used in a sentence
- REFRAIN definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
If you refrain from doing something, you deliberately do not do it Mrs Hardie refrained from making any comment
- Refrain - Wikipedia
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin: refringere, "to repeat", through Old French: refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in poetry or in music —the " chorus " of a song
- Refrain - definition of refrain by The Free Dictionary
re•frain 2 (rɪˈfreɪn) n 1 a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, esp at the end of each stanza; chorus 2 a a musical setting for a poetic refrain b melody; tune c the recurrent section of a rondo
- refrain, n. ¹ meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun refrain See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence OED's earliest evidence for refrain is from before 1413, in the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer, poet and administrator
- Refrain - Definition and Examples | LitCharts
A refrain refers to repeated lyrics, and so every chorus (which are marked by repeating lyrics) is a refrain The term "chorus", however, refers to when all the musical elements—singers and instruments—come together in unison
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