• IPA: /ˈsɒnɪt/

sonnet (plural sonnets)

1. A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

• French: sonnet
• German: Sonett
• Italian: sonetto
• Portuguese: soneto
• Russian: соне́т
• Spanish: soneto

sonnet (sonnets, present participle sonneting; past and past participle sonneted)

1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
   • 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640 ↗:

     strains that come almost to sonneting

2. (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.