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Synonyms for ode

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ohd
Phonetic Transcription : oÊŠd

Définition of ode

Origin :
  • 1580s, from Middle French ode (c.1500), from Late Latin ode "lyric song," from Greek oide, Attic contraction of aoide "song, ode;" related to aeidein (Attic aidein) "to sing;" aoidos (Attic oidos) "a singer, singing;" aude "voice, tone, sound," probably from a PIE *e-weid-, perhaps from root *wed- "to speak." In classical use, "a poem intended to be sung;" in modern use usually a rhymed lyric, often an address, usually dignified, rarely extending to 150 lines. Related: Odic.
  • noun poem
Example sentences :
  • The practical result of the Ode was a pension of 200 a year conferred on him by Queen Anne.
  • Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
  • You have given new beauties to the charming Ode which you have transmitted to me.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Poor Collins' Ode to the Passions, on and off the stage, is torn to very tatters.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • And do you think that the ode is a good composition, and true?
  • Extract from : « Protagoras » by Plato
  • "I'll write an ode for you upon any subject that you may set me," I challenged him.
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Left alone, I began an ode which should prove to him his lack of justice.
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Is not a letter of Cicero, is not an ode of Horace worth it all?
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
  • The honour to which he alludes was the setting his Ode on the Passions to music.
  • Extract from : « The Poetical Works of William Collins » by William Collins
  • I have no doubt of it, although your ode was the work of a poet deeply in love.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • His setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" was incomparably the best of the sixty efforts.
  • Extract from : « The Genius » by Margaret Horton Potter

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