Definitions for strophes

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strophes stro·phe

Spelling: [stroh-fee]

IPA: /ˈstroʊ fi/

Strophes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 364 anagrams from letters in strophes (ehoprsst).

Definitions for strophes

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 strophes

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

Examples for strophes

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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