Definitions for strophe

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strophe stro·phe

Spelling: [stroh-fee]

IPA: /ˈstroʊ fi/

Strophe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in strophe (ehoprst).

Definitions for strophe

noun

1. the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
2. the movement performed by the chorus during the singing of this part.
3. the first of the three series of lines forming the divisions of each section of a Pindaric ode.
4. (in modern poetry) any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from a stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern.

Origin of strophe

1595-1605; Greek strophḗ a twist, turning about, akin to stréphein to turn; see strepto-

Examples for strophe

A mysterious attribution of them all to God closes the strophe.

(strophe) Romulus and Remus, nice pair of schemers, How does your city grow?

He called upon her to save their little band by singing a strophe.

Canzone, in which Dante describes the person of Beatrice, strophe third.

Balassa was also the inventor of the strophe which goes by his name.

The strophe ends with the abrupt fierce demand,—If not, who then is it?

The closing verse of this strophe takes the complaint of ver.

If the superfluous two are detached from it and connected as one strophe with ver.

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

As the text stands, this strophe is a verse too short, and ver.