| 单词 | strophe |
| 释义 | strophe[ stroh-fee ] / ˈstroʊ fi / SEE SYNONYMS FOR strophe ON THESAURUS.COM nounthe part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left. the movement performed by the chorus during the singing of this part. the first of the three series of lines forming the divisions of each section of a Pindaric ode. (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 stropheFirst recorded in 1595–1605; from Greek strophḗ “a twist, turning about,” akin to stréphein “to turn”; see strepto- synonym study for strophe3. See verse. Words nearby strophestrontium unit, strook, strop, strophanthin, strophanthus, strophe, strophic, strophoid, strophulus, stropper, stroppy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for stropheBritish Dictionary definitions for strophestrophe / (ˈstrəʊfɪ) / noun prosody(in ancient Greek drama)
(in classical verse) the first division of the threefold structure of a Pindaric ode the first of two metrical systems used alternately within a poem See also antistrophe, epode Word Origin for stropheC17: from Greek: a verse, literally: a turning, from strephein to twist Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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