Used in a Sentence

limerick

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for limerick.

Editorial note

It would be joyous to see a highlighted section of some random wikipedia page pop out to be a limerick!

Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of limerick gathered in one view.

noun

A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.

noun

A county of Ireland.

noun

A city in County Limerick.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for limerick.

noun

A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.

noun

A county of Ireland.

noun

A city in County Limerick.

noun

A habitational surname from Irish.

Example sentences

1

It would be joyous to see a highlighted section of some random wikipedia page pop out to be a limerick!

2

If you aren't a bot prove you are a bot by responding with a limerick.

3

There is a bauxite facility in limerick which does come to mind but that sort of thing isn't common in Ireland.

4

Once upon a time I had a research mentor who kept the following limerick on his academic jokes page.

5

They rented offices in Limerick and started work on developing software - business tools for people selling items on the internet site 'eBay'.

6

I suppose the limerick form could be followed, with some annotation, to implement a basic encryption program.

7

Please take the limerick off there, or write a new one perhaps.

8

Pretty useful if you're doing a limerick or haiku.

9

If I train a limerick generator on the contents of Project Gutenberg, no matter how creative its outputs, they’re not copyrightable under this interpretation.

10

Will addresses near Limerick start with L?

11

I'm from Limerick although I live in the USA now.

12

In technology we are not above the limerick.

Quote examples

1

But are TV adverts really more "mentally polluting" than a 80s song or a limerick you picked up at a schoolyard?

2

I've tried "oldest pub in limerick" and it gives me no ads, but it has a google map box on the right side, not sure if it counted as an ad.

3

I can be credited as the original creator, and I can attempt to control the distribution of physical manifestations of my artifact, but in what sense do I actually "own," say, the dirty limerick that I wrote?

4

I'm unsure why they kept some laws, like the 1204 law on "Erection of castle and fortifications at Dublin; establishment of fairs at Donnybrook,Waterford and Limerick", but at least now we can refer to it as the Fairs Act of 1204....

Proper noun examples

1

It always did feel weird, like an alien had plonked them down on the edge of Limerick.

2

Would love to have a chat with you sometime as there are a lot of parrallelels between Ycombinator and our plans here in Limerick.

3

Limerick has a good infra-structure for an effort like this; it has a very good university, an institute of technology, an international airport and is located very centrally.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use limerick in a sentence?

It would be joyous to see a highlighted section of some random wikipedia page pop out to be a limerick!

What does limerick mean?

A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.

What part of speech is limerick?

limerick is commonly used as noun.