Definitions for antistrophe

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antistrophe an·tis·tro·phe

Spelling: [an-tis-truh-fee]

IPA: /ænˈtɪs trə fi/

Antistrophe is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1955 anagrams from letters in antistrophe (aehinoprstt).

Definitions for antistrophe

noun

1. the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right.
2. the movement performed by the chorus while singing an antistrophe.
3. Prosody. the second of two metrically corresponding systems in a poem. Compare strophe (def 3).

Origin of antistrophe

1540-50; Greek: a turning about. See anti-, strophe

Examples for antistrophe

This subject, with a recitative in the minor, forms the antistrophe.

(antistrophe) Hee-haw, Remus can saw, Romulus tries to make plaster.

The metrical scheme of this sonnet is simple: a strophe balanced by an antistrophe.

His mind see-sawed in strophe and antistrophe: "You can't move!"

And all the gapers, who had nothing of their own to suggest, answered with the antistrophe, “Who could it be?”

In the second antistrophe the Bard thus marks the progress of Poetry.

Metrical scheme: a brief strophe and antistrophe and conclusion.

This ode consists of strophe, epode, antistrophe, and second epode.

Mr. Peaslee's reflections rose in a strophe of hope and fell in an antistrophe of despair.

It alternates with a Recitative, which assumes a minor key, and which seems to be its antistrophe.