ode
/əʊd/US/oʊd/
ode noun: 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 (1)
ode (plural odes)
- 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
Noun (2)
ode (plural odes)
Noun (3) capitalized: ODE
ODE (plural ODEs)
- Initialism of ordinary differential equation.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: ODE
ODE
- Initialism of Oxford Dictionary of English.
- Initialism of Orchestration Director Engine.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ode
Ode (plural Odes)
- A surname.
ode meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ode in Hindi
- ओ. डी. ई, ओडे
ode in Tamil
- ஓடே
ode in Marathi
- ओ. डी. ई, ओडे
ode in Urdu
- اوڈے
More languagesFewer languages
- ode in Bengali
- ও. ডি. ই
- ode in Telugu
- ఓ. డి. ఇ, ఓడే
- ode in Malayalam
- ഓ. ഡി. ഇ, ഓഡെ
- ode in Punjabi
- ਓ. ਡੀ. ਈ, ਓਡੇ
- ode in Gujarati
- ઓડે, ઓ. ડી. ઇ
- ode in Odia
- ଓ. ଡି. ଇ
- ode in Nepali
- ओड, ओडे
- ode in Tagalog
- oda
Examples of ode in a sentence
- The sentence "In every ode linger many" can be resegmented to read "I never yodel in Germany".
- There are three typical forms of ode: Horatian, Pindaric and irregular. Horatian odes follow the conventions of Horace, who deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon.
- The qasida is a formal multithematic ode addressed to a member of the elite in praise.
Forms of ode
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | odes |
| plural | ODEs |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Odes |
Origin of ode
From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.
Shortening.
North/Low German and Swedish surname, shortened from various Germanic names containing the element Ode, such as Odebert, Oderich, Odeger, from the element *aud (“riches”). See also Ott.
Words formed from ode
Words that rhyme with ode
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abode
- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about ode
- What does ode mean?
- Ode means 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.
- What is ode in Hindi?
- Ode in Hindi is ओ. डी. ई, ओडे. See Ode meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ode?
- Ode can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ode?
- Ode is pronounced /oʊd/ (US).
- What is the plural of ode?
- The plural of ode is odes.
Words near ode in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ode (page history and authors); ODE (page history and authors); Ode (page history and authors); ode (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ode (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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