Definitions for ode

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Spelling: [ohd]
IPA: /oʊd/

Ode is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in ode (deo).

Definitions for ode

noun

  1. a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
  2. (originally) a poem intended to be sung.

Origin of ode

1580-90; Middle French Late Latin ōda Greek ōidḗ, contraction of aoidḗ song, derivative of aeídein to sing

Examples for ode

“The Ladies Who Lunch,” an ode to jaded Manhattanites, stubbornness, and vodka stingers, became one of her two signature songs.

The practical result of the ode was a pension of 200 a year conferred on him by Queen Anne.

Similarly, Rep. Franks started off his A9 appearance with an ode to “human respect” and “true tolerance.”

You have given new beauties to the charming ode which you have transmitted to me.

Poor Collins' ode to the Passions, on and off the stage, is torn to very tatters.

Even before that ode to Jewish angst and masturbation hit the bookstores in 1969, Roth was a Yaddo veteran.

And do you think that the ode is a good composition, and true?

"I'll write an ode for you upon any subject that you may set me," I challenged him.

His one previous musical, the 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You, is an ode to the pleasures of old-Hollywood escapism.

This music video is an ode to his one true love, complete with romantic rides on horseback.

Word Value for ode
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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