Stăn'ză, n.
n.; pl. STĂN'zăs. [It. stanza, a room, habitation, a stanza, i. e., a stop; Sp. & Pg. estancia, Pr. estansa, Fr. stance, from Lat. stans, p. pr. of stare, to stand.]
Sense 1. (Poet.) A number of lines or verses regularly adjusted to each other, and properly ending in a full point or pause; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring, whether like or unlike, in measure.
Horace confines himself to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode. Dryden.
Sense 2. (Arch.) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.