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ode  (d)
n.
1. A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure.
2.
a. A choric song of classical Greece, often accompanied by a dance and performed at a public festival or as part of a drama.
b. A classical Greek poem modeled on the choric ode and usually having a three-part structure consisting of a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode.

[French, choric song, from Old French, from Late Latin d, da, from Greek aoid, id, song; see wed-2 in Indo-European roots.]

odic (dk) adj.

ode [əʊd]
n
1. (Literature / Poetry) a lyric poem, typically addressed to a particular subject, with lines of varying lengths and complex rhythms See also Horatian ode, Pindaric ode
2. (Literature / Poetry) (formerly) a poem meant to be sung
[via French from Late Latin ōda, from Greek ōidē, from aeidein to sing]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ode - a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
lyric poem, lyric - a short poem of songlike quality
epithalamium - an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom
Horatian ode, Sapphic ode - an ode with several stanzas
Pindaric, Pindaric ode - an ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units
choral ode - ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama
Translations
ode [əʊd] Noda f

ode [ˈəʊd] node f

ode
nOde f (→ to, on an +acc)

ode [əʊd] node f
ode [əʊd] node f

ode
n ode [əud]
a poem written to a person or thing Ode to a Nightingale' was written by John Keats. ode قَصيدَه غِنائِيَّه ода óda ode die Ode ωδή oda ood قصیده؛ چکیده oodi ode שִׁיר תְּהִילָה कविता, भावगीत, गीति oda óda puisi pujian óður, lofsöngur ode (~に寄せる)詩 송시(특정 인물·사물에 대한 서정시) odė oda oda ode ode oda ode odă ода óda oda oda ode บทกวี kaside, methiye 頌歌 ода قصيدہ thơ ca ngợi


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Of the Choric part the Parode is the first undivided utterance of the Chorus: the Stasimon is a Choric ode without anapaests or trochaic tetrameters: the Commos is a joint lamentation of Chorus and actors.
Leo Hunter professed her perfect willingness to recite the ode again, her kind and considerate friends wouldn't hear of it on any account; and the refreshment room being thrown open, all the people who had ever been there before, scrambled in with all possible despatch-- Mrs.
The Ode on a Grecian Urn is more lovely now than when it was written, because for a hundred years lovers have read it and the sick at heart taken comfort in its lines.
 
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