ode
noun/əʊd/
/əʊd/
- a poem that speaks to a person or thing or celebrates a special event
- Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, from late Latin oda, from Greek ōidē, Attic form of aoidē ‘song’, from aeidein ‘sing’.Definitions on the go
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