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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The after song; the part of a lyric or choral ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.
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Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
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noun
A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
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History
From Ancient Greek ἐπῳδός (epōidós); see epi-, ode.
