name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
ode
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /oʊd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /əʊd/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Scotland: /od/
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rhymes with -əʊd
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homophone: owed (except Scotland)
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CMU ARPABET: OW1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Initialism of Oxford Dictionary of English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Meaning 3
Initialism of Orchestration Director Engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- write an ode to someone
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noun
Meaning 5
An odonate; a dragonfly or damselfly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 6
Initialism of ordinary differential equation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: mathematical-analysis, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: lyric, lyric poem
Narrower terms: epithalamium, Horatian ode, Sapphic ode, Pindaric ode, Pindaric, choral ode
History
Etymology
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.
From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.
Shortening.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ներբող (nerboġ) — a short poetical composition
- Armenian: գովերգ (goverg) — a short poetical composition
- Belarusian: о́да (óda) — a short poetical composition
- Bulgarian: о́да (óda) — a short poetical composition
- Catalan: oda — a short poetical composition
- Chinese Mandarin: 頌詞 /颂词 (sòngcí) — a short poetical composition
- Chinese Mandarin: 頌詩 /颂诗 (sòngshī) — a short poetical composition
- Chinese Mandarin: 頌 /颂 (sòng) — a short poetical composition
- Chinese Mandarin: 頌歌 /颂歌 (sònggē) — a short poetical composition
- Czech: óda — a short poetical composition
- Danish: ode — a short poetical composition
- Dutch: ode — a short poetical composition
- Dutch: lofdicht — a short poetical composition
- Finnish: oodi — a short poetical composition
- French: ode — a short poetical composition
- Galician: oda — a short poetical composition
- Georgian: ოდა (oda) — a short poetical composition
- German: Ode — a short poetical composition
- Greek: ωδή (odí) — a short poetical composition
- Ancient Greek: ᾠδή (ōidḗ) — a short poetical composition
- Ancient Greek: ὕμνος (húmnos) — a short poetical composition
- Hebrew: אודה (oda) — a short poetical composition
- Hungarian: óda — a short poetical composition
- Italian: ode — a short poetical composition
- Japanese: 頌歌 (shōka) — a short poetical composition
- Japanese: オード (ōdo) — a short poetical composition
- Kalmyk: магтал (magtal) — a short poetical composition
- Korean: 송시 (songsi) — a short poetical composition
- Korean: 송가 (songga) — a short poetical composition
- Korean: 오드 (odeu) — a short poetical composition
- Latin: oda — a short poetical composition
- Macedonian: о́да (óda) — a short poetical composition
- Occitan: òda — a short poetical composition
- Polish: oda — a short poetical composition
- Portuguese: ode — a short poetical composition
- Romanian: odă — a short poetical composition
- Russian: о́да (óda) — a short poetical composition
- Spanish: oda — a short poetical composition
- Swedish: ode — a short poetical composition
- Tagalog: oda — a short poetical composition
- Ukrainian: о́да (óda) — a short poetical composition
- Yiddish: אָדע (ode) — a short poetical composition
- Bulgarian: ОДУ (ODU) — initialism of ordinary differential equation
- Finnish: TDY — initialism of ordinary differential equation
- German: GDG — initialism of ordinary differential equation
- German: GDGL — initialism of ordinary differential equation
- German: gDGL — initialism of ordinary differential equation
- German: GDGl — initialism of ordinary differential equation
- Polish: but see równanie różniczkowe zwyczajne — initialism of ordinary differential equation