Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ode"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ode
n : a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.