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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024od•ic (ō′dik),USA pronunciation adj. - Literatureof an ode.
od′i•cal•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ode /oʊd/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Poetrya lyric poem, typically with an irregular meter, rhyme, or form, and expressing praise or enthusiastic emotion.
od•ic, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ode (ōd),USA pronunciation n. - Poetrya lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
- Poetry(originally) a poem intended to be sung. Cf. Horatian ode, Pindaric ode.
- Greek ōidé̄, contraction of aoidé̄ song, derivative of aeídein to sing
- Late Latin ōda
- Middle French
- 1580–90
-ode1 , - a suffix of nouns, appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it meant "like'';
used in the formation of compound words:phyllode.Cf. -oid.
- Greek -ōdēs, probably generalized from adjectives describing smells, as kēó̄dēs smelling like incense; base ōd- of ózein to smell, give off odor
-ode2 , - a combining form meaning "way,'' "road,'' used in the formation of compound words:anode; electrode.
- Greek -odos, combining form of hodós
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