Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Stanza

Stanza (stan"zȧ) , noun

[Italian stanza a room, habitation, a stanza, i. e., a stop, from Latin stans, present participle of stare to stand. See Stand, and compare Estancia, Stance, Stanchion.]

1.
A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; 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 strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode. — Dryden
2.
(Architecture) An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.