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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ODE, n. [L. ode; Gr.] A short poem or song; a poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem. The ode is of the greater or less kind; the less is characterized by sweetness and ease; the greater by sublimity, rapture and quickness of transition.
Pindar has left Olympic odes, Pythian odes, Nemean odes, and Isthmian odes.
The ode consists of unequal verses in stanzas or strophes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin, from Greek ?id?, literally, song, from aeidein, aidein to sing; akin to Greek aud? voice Date: 1588 a lyric poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style, varying length of line, and complexity of stanza forms • odist noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a lyric poem, usu. rhymed and in the form of an address, in varied or irregular metre. 2 hist. a poem meant to be sung. Etymology: F f. LL oda f. Gk oide Attic form of aoide song f. aeido sing

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ode Ode, n. [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. ? a song, especially a lyric song, contr. fr. ?, fr. ? to sing; cf.Skr. vad to speak, sing. Cf. Comedy, Melody, Monody.] 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. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. --Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. --Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(odes) An ode is a poem, especially one that is written in praise of a particular person, thing, or event. ...Keats' Ode to a Nightingale. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Lyric poem.

Moby Thesaurus

English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay