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refrain

repeated lines in music or poetry
Class type of: passage Q191609

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
musical-structural concept, literature term[3]
Genre
jazz[4]
Subclass of
passage
Part of
song, poetry, verse-chorus form[5][6][7]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[10][11][12][13]
Different from
ritornello, stornello[15][16]
Has characteristic
repetition[14]
Opposite of
song verse[9]
Said to be the same as
hook[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en chorus en refrain in poetry en refrain ar لازمة cs refrén da Refrain da Omkvæd de Kehrreim de Kehrvers el ρεφρέν es estribillo fa بند برگردان fi kertosäe fi kertosäkeistö fi kertsi fi refrengi he חזורת he חיזורת he חיזרת he פזמון חוזר
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85112273
GND ID
4177356-1
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/8660, scot/3712
BNCF Thesaurus ID
67886
BabelNet ID
00018783n
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/refrain
FactGrid item ID
Župa dubrovačka
Freebase ID
/m/01v20b
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
refreng_-_musikk
KBpedia ID
Refrain
Lex ID
omkvæd
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007529452405171
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WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07064217-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/4c9655a7-784c-44c4-9af7-764b74924aee

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Part of 3
poetry, song, verse-chorus form
Belongs to 2
rondo, verse-chorus form
Different from 2
ritornello, stornello
← Different from 2
ritornello, stornello
FactGrid item ID 1
Župa dubrovačka
Genre 1
jazz
Has characteristic 1
repetition
Named after 1
verse-chorus form
Said to be the same as 1
hook
Subclass of 1
passage
Subtypes 1
antiphon
← FactGrid item ID 1
Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen
← Has characteristic 1
hook
← Said to be the same as 1
hook
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Summary

refrain is a musical-structural concept[1]. refrain is a type of passage[2].

Body

Influence

Things named for refrain include verse-chorus form[17], a musical form[18].

Why It Matters

Entities named for refrain include verse-chorus form[17], a musical form[18].

Related Entities

poetry

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Sachwörterbuch der Literatur (8 ed.). wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → musical-structural concept, literature term
    Part of → song, poetry, verse-chorus form
    Opposite of → song verse
    Said to be the same as → hook
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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