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Webster 1913 Edition

Ode

(ōd)

Noun.

[F., fr. L.

ode

oda

, Gr.

ὠ,δή

a song, especially a lyric song, contr. fr.

ἀοιδή

, fr.

ἀείδειν

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.

Shakespeare

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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ode

ODE

Noun.

[L. ode; Gr.] A short poem or song; a poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem. The ode is of the greater or less kind; the less is characterized by sweetness and ease; the greater by sublimity, rapture and quickness of transition.

Pindar has left Olympic odes, Pythian odes, Nemean odes, and Isthmian odes.

The ode consists of unequal verses in stanzas or strophes.

Definition 2024

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ode"

Yoruba

Noun

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