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Definition of ode noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

ode

noun
 
/əʊd/
 
/əʊd/
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  1. a poem that speaks to a person or thing or celebrates a special event
    • Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
    Topics Literature and writingc2
    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, from late Latin oda, from Greek ōidē, Attic form of aoidē ‘song’, from aeidein ‘sing’.
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