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Princeton's WordNet

  1. odenoun

    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

Wiktionary

  1. odenoun

    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.

    Ode on a Grecian UrnKeats

  2. Etymology: From ᾠδή.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Odenoun

    A poem written to be sung to musick; a lyrick poem; the ode is either of the greater or less kind. The less is characterised by sweetness and ease; the greater by sublimity, rapture, and quickness of transition.

    Etymology: ὠδὴ.

    A man haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving Rosalind on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles, all forsooth deifying the name of Rosalind. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

    O run, prevent them with thy humble ode,
    And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. John Milton, Poems.

    What work among you scholar Gods!
    Phœbus must write him am’rous odes;
    And thou, poor cousin, must compose
    His letters in submissive prose. Matthew Prior.

Wikipedia

  1. Ode

    An ode (from Ancient Greek: ᾠδή, romanized: ōdḗ) is a type of lyric poetry. Odes are elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also enter. Greek odes were originally poetic pieces performed with musical accompaniment. As time passed on, they gradually became known as personal lyrical compositions whether sung (with or without musical instruments) or merely recited (always with accompaniment). The primary instruments used were the aulos and the lyre (the latter was the most revered instrument to the ancient Greeks). There are three typical forms of odes: the Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular. Pindaric odes follow the form and style of Pindar. Horatian odes follow conventions of Horace; the odes of Horace deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon. Irregular odes use rhyme, but not the three-part form of the Pindaric ode, nor the two- or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode. The ode is a lyric poem. It conveys exalted and inspired emotions. It is a lyric in an elaborate form, expressed in a language that is imaginative, dignified and sincere. Like the lyric, an ode is of Greek origin.

ChatGPT

  1. ode

    An ODE, or Ordinary Differential Equation, is a type of differential equation containing one or more functions of one independent variable and the derivatives of those functions. It is defined as an equation that expresses a relationship between the function's derivatives and the function itself. The term "ordinary" is used to distinguish it from the more complex "partial differential equations" which involve multiple independent variables.

Wikidata

  1. Ode

    Ode is a type of lyrical stanza. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. Greek odes were originally poetic pieces accompanied by symphonic orchestras. As time passed on, they gradually became known as personal lyrical compositions whether sung or merely recited. The primary instruments used were the aulos and the lyre. The written ode, as it was practiced by the Romans, returned to the/ L E2 lyrical form of the Lesbian lyricists. There are three typical forms of odes:the Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular. Pindaric odes follow the form and style of Pindar. Horatian odes follow conventions of Horace; the odes of Horace deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon. Odes by Catullus, as well as other poetry of Catullus, was particularly inspired by Sappho. Irregular odes are rhyming, but they do not employ the three-part form of the Pindaric ode nor the two- or four-line stanza of the Horatian ode.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ode

    ōd, n. a song: a poem written to be set to music: the music written for such a poem.—adj. O′dic.—n. O′dist, a writer of odes. [Fr. ode—Gr. ōdē, contr. from aoidē—aeidein, to sing.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ODE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ode is ranked #41501 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Ode surname appeared 524 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Ode.

    78.2% or 410 total occurrences were White.
    10.8% or 57 total occurrences were Black.
    6.1% or 32 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3% or 16 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.7% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Anagrams for ode »

  1. doe

  2. DOE

  3. doe

  4. DOE

  5. Edo

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  7. OED

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  9. EOD

  10. OED

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ode in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ode in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ode in a Sentence

  1. John Keats:

    from ODE to a NIGHTENGALE: Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain,

  2. William Faulkner:

    If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

  3. Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For:

    I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.

  4. Matt Polk:

    Everyone in the room knew that she and Bob were finally together again, watching the festivities from box seats high above them all. The evening ended with a raucous audience singalong led by Bob's wife, Kelly Saget, and his daughters Aubrey and Lara. The ode, in homage to Bob's salty sense of humor, was ‘My Dog Licked My Balls,’ it's just an amazing special of music. Everybody gets up and sings ‘A Dog Licked My Balls,’.

  5. An ODE spokesman:

    However, it is clear that racial equity be addressed to support every learner, we know there are long-standing inequities in our systems that have led to gaps in outcomes for students of color. We do emphasize culturally responsive professional learning and an inclusive curriculum that is reflective of all communities in our state. There is both an intellectual and ethical basis for centering equity in professional learning and instructional materials, primarily so ODE can meet its responsibility to create the conditions in which every student can reach their full potential.

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