stanza

Meanings

1. A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
2. An apartment or division in a building.
3. An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
4. A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
5. A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
6. A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.

Etymology

From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.