Definitions of limerick [ˈlɪm ər ɪk]

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Definition of 'limerick'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) limerick
a kind of humorous poem in which lines one, two and five rhyme, and lines three and four form a rhymed couplet.

2. (n.) Limerick
a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 107,963; 1037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).

3. Limerick
its county seat: a seaport at the head of the Shannon estuary. 60,721.

Definition of 'limerick'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Limerick
port city in southwestern Ireland

2. (noun) limerick
a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

Definitions of 'limerick'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. limerick
Irish county on the S. of the Shannon estuary, between Tipperary and Kerry, watered by the Mulcai, Maigue, and Deel; hilly in the S., is mostly fertile, and under corn and green crops; cattle are reared and dairy products exported; some woollens and paper manufactured. There are many antiquities. Limerick (37), the county town, on the Shannon, is the fourth Irish seaport, and manufactures a little lace.

Translation of 'limerick'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a type of humorous poem with five lines, the third and fourth lines being shorter than the others.
Afrikaans: bogrympie	Arabic: قَصيده خُماسِيَّه تَحْكي	Bulgarian: вид хумористично петостиш
Brazilian: poema	Czech: druhžertovné rýmovačky	German: der Limerik
Danish: limerick	Greek: κωμικό πεντάστιχο	Spanish: quintilla humorística
Estonian: limerik	Farsi: شعر غیر مسجع پنج بندی	Finnish: limerikki
French: poème humoristique	Hebrew: חַמשִיר	Hindi: तुक्तक
Croatian: vrstašaljive pjesmice	Hungarian: limerick	Indonesian: puisi lucu
Icelandic: limra	Italian: limerick, (poesia scherzo	Japanese: 五行戯詩
Korean: 5행 희시(戱詩)	Lithuanian: limerikas, humoristinis e	Latvian: humoristisks [] dzejolis
Malay: limerik	Dutch: limerick	Norwegian: limerick
Polish: limeryk	Persian: ،مخمس شعر غیر مسجع پنج بن	Pashto: مخمس،پنځه بند لرونكى شعر
Portuguese: poema	Romanian: limerick, poezie umoris	Russian: лимерик
Slovak: druhžartovnej rýmovačky n	Slovenian: šaljiva pesem	Serbian: šaljiva pesmica
Swedish: limerick	Thai: กลอนตลก	Turkish: beş dizeli nükteli şiir;
Taiwanese: 五行打油詩	Ukrainian: жартівливий вірш	Urdu: پانچ پانچ مصرعوں کے بندوں
Vietnamese: thể thơ hài hước năm câu	Chinese: 五行打油诗
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