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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.

Ode Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ode?

[n] a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

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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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