Definition of "ode" []

• A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure. (noun)
• A choric song of classical Greece, often accompanied by a dance and performed at a public festival or as part of a drama. (noun)
• A classical Greek poem modeled on the choric ode and usually having a three-part structure consisting of a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode. (noun)

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• "None the less it is safe to say that the concoction of a similar ode by the aid of the trade-mark words invented in the British Isles would be a task of great difficulty on account of the paucity of terms sufficiently artificial to bestow the exotic remoteness which is accountable for the aroma of the American ‘ode’."
• "In "Crystal Palace" (2002, revised 2011), in what he calls an ode to "digital interlace," he disassembles a landscape of majestic snow-wreathed conifers at Lake Tahoe (and, briefly, a red house) into sharply differentiated parts and visual planes, isolating these elements in a way that brings to mind the individual layers of a paper diorama."
• "Kittenpie is a classic beauty - the kinds that epic paintings were done in ode to in victorian times."