Library / English Dictionary

ODE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A lyric poem with complex stanza forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ode" is a kind of...):

lyric; lyric poem (a short poem of songlike quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ode"):

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)

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