ODE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of ode in English odenoun [ C ] uk /əʊd/ us /oʊd/ Add to word list Add to word list a poem expressing the writer's thoughts and feelings about a particular person or subject, usually written to that person or subject: ode to It reminded me of A. E. Housman's poem "A Shropshire Lad", an ode to an athlete who dies young.ode on "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem by Keats.  ode to something a work of art, piece of writing, speech, etc. that refers to or describes something in a personal and approving way: The play is a nostalgic ode to small-town America of the early 20th century. The book, which took eight years to write, is an ode to those society holds in high regard.

• It was far more popular than his earlier ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington, which he considered a much better piece of work.
• The striking thing about his speech was what an ode to authoritarianism it was.
• Truly an ode to the planet, the gorgeous, high-definition footage is superb family viewing.

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• action hero
• allegorist
• alliterative
• alliteratively
• fabulist
• fairy godmother
• fan art
• fan artist
• fan fiction
• munchkin
• mystery play
• nativity play
• naturalism
• naturalistic
• swashbuckler
• sympathetically
• tanka
• tartan noir
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Praising and applauding (Definition of ode from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

ode | American Dictionary

odenoun [ C ] us/oʊd/ Add to word list Add to word list literature a poem that deals with thoughts and feelings about an idea or subject and that is written in lines and stanzas (= groups of lines) varying in length (Definition of ode from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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ode Sublime genres, such as the ode, the historical novel, and the heroic biography, were in demand in many empires. From the Cambridge English Corpus At its end is a powerful ode for baritone and orchestra to the eponymous city and its treasured memory. From the Cambridge English Corpus A twelve-line choral ode follows, and then a remarkable event occurs. From the Cambridge English Corpus Towards the end of their first choral ode we see another actor coming up the pathway behind the orchestra. From the Cambridge English Corpus Although commonly categorized as an ode for its secular text, it was conceived as an oratorio. From the Cambridge English Corpus The entire ode proceeds in a series of invocations to the bird/poet to sing her pain, but she never does. From the Cambridge English Corpus This example confirms the conjecture underlying the design of cm ode ls: using satisfiability solvers to compute answer sets for tight programs may be computationally advantageous. From the Cambridge English Corpus Furthermore, obviously we do not propose to join in the ode to 'effective competition' contained in this resolution. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English As expected, it is also an ode to the privatisation of the pay-as-you-go pension system, which we all know to be effective. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This report is an ode to the free and undistorted competition that it holds up as an infallible remedy against the financial crisis. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That document is like a schoolboy ode. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The text has become an ode to liberalisation with one single aim in mind, namely to make competitive market forces the sole regulator of service provision. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Literary forms varied, from ode, pastorals and sonnets to elegy, satire and romance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Lyrical poetry, odes, pastorals, elegies, epigrams; dramatic presentations of comedy and tragedy; histories, rhetorical treatises, philosophical dialectics, and philosophical treatises all arose in this period. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Yet with its acceptance of the numb, dull and indolent mood as something creative, it set the scene for all the odes that followed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of ode These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of ode?

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