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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] ode (oʊd) n. a lyric poem, typically with an irregular metrical form and expressing exalted or enthusiastic emotion. [1580–90; < Middle French < Late Latin ōda < Greek aoidḗ song, derivative of aeídein to sing] od′ic, adj. -ode1 , a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “like,” “having the nature of”; used to form nouns: phyllode. Compare -oid. [< Greek -ōdēs] -ode2 , a combining form meaning “way,” “path,” used esp. in the names of devices through which electrical current passes: electrode. [< Greek -odos, comb. form of hodós]
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