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Ode

Ode Meaning & Definition
Ode Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ode?

[n] a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ode:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ode: alba | anacreontic | balada | ballad | ballade | bucolic | canso | chanson | clerihew | dirge | dithyramb | eclogue | elegy | English sonnet | epic | epigram | epithalamium | epode | epopee | epopoeia | epos | georgic | ghazel | haiku | Horatian ode | idyll | Italian sonnet | jingle | limerick | lyric | madrigal | monody | narrative poem | nursery rhyme | palinode | pastoral | pastoral elegy | pastorela | pastourelle | Petrarchan sonnet | Pindaric ode | poem | prothalamium | rhyme | rondeau | rondel | roundel | roundelay | Sapphic ode | satire | sestina | Shakespearean sonnet | sloka | song | sonnet | sonnet sequence | tanka | tenso | tenzone | threnody | triolet | troubadour poem | verse | verselet | versicle | villanelle | virelay

See Also | choral ode | Horatian ode | lyric | lyric poem | Pindaric | Pindaric ode | Sapphic ode

Ode In Webster's Dictionary

\Ode\, n. [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. ? a song, especially a lyric song, contr. fr. ?, fr. ? to sing; cf.Skr. vad to speak, sing. Cf. {Comedy}, {Melody}, {Monody}.] A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. --Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. --Milton. {Ode factor}, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

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