ode
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Noun slang
- An odonate; a dragonfly or damselfly.
Origin
Shortening.
Forms
Noun Entry 2
- A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
- write an ode to someone
- [title] - 1820, John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn:
Origin
From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.