About The Word Ode
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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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