ode
IPA: ˈoʊd
noun
- A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
- A surname.
- (mathematical analysis) Initialism of ordinary differential equation. [(calculus) An equation involving the derivatives of a function of only one independent variable.]
- Initialism of Oxford Dictionary of English.
- (computing) Initialism of Orchestration Director Engine.
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Examples of "ode" in Sentences
- The song is an ode to the piano.
- The song is an ode to the pogo dance.
- Instead, the ode begins with the irmos.
- I want the wafty odes, the musky odours.
- It was there that he wrote the ode to her.
- The ode was viewed positively by the end of the century.
- Horace addressed to him the ninth ode of the second book.
- The poem is an ode to the countryside and peoples of rural Castile.
- He also celebrated in an indifferent ode the opening of the states general.
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