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a composition in verse in which a person expresses a strong feeling of love or respect for someone or something
This poem is titled, "An Ode to My Mother."
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Recent Examples of ode
The night delivered 18 songs in two hours, from political and environmental protest numbers to love songs, from wistful tales of days and friends gone by to, at one point, an ode to his tour bus.
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Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
Listed for $39 million, the residence is a stylish ode to mid-century modernism, with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms across 7,356 square feet.
—Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Patrick’s current favorite menu item is another ode to someone near and dear.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Guillermo del Toro, whose Pinocchio was conceived as an ode to the human over the machine, was emphatic on the subject.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
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Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
Listed for $39 million, the residence is a stylish ode to mid-century modernism, with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms across 7,356 square feet.
—Tj MacIas, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Patrick’s current favorite menu item is another ode to someone near and dear.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Guillermo del Toro, whose Pinocchio was conceived as an ode to the human over the machine, was emphatic on the subject.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
Noun
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There is as little self or sentiment in her juvenilia as in her adult writing; her focus from the start was on sound and form, and her inspirations came not from her own sensibility but from other poems.—
Frances Wilson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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The Harlem Renaissance was filled with poetry and song—and with performance, as enshrined in Greaves’s footage which features many spontaneous, thrillingly theatrical recitations of poems by Bontemps, Hughes, Cullen, and McKay.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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To the west, the London Eye pirouettes above the skyline—to the east, Shakespeare’s Globe serves legendary sonnets.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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In another clip, the Florida star is out of the hospital and atop a balcony rapping the lyrics once again.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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By Season 2, the show was a hit and the lyrics were reworked.—
Hillel Italie,
Twin Cities,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Bad things happen and there's no rhyme, there's no reason.—
Wendy Grossman Kantor,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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A lot of the important stuff was real: the songs, the rhymes, the flow, the friendship.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2025
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The same lament was played during Queen Elizabeth's funeral in 2022.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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Apologies and laments and longing are woven throughout the album, but the speaker doesn’t ask anything of anyone that comes across as especially loud.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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Altuna’s Basque-language epic traces Karmele’s life from 1937 exile to return from Venezuela, weaving love, music and resistance.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
22 Sep. 2025
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This marks the violent anime epic's ninth week since its home country premiere in Japan, but only second after rolling out from Asian markets to the rest of the world.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Sep. 2025
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Archbishop Bernard Hebda addressed some 2,000 people at the vigil, where psalms were sung and the silences burrowed deep in the wide room.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Twin Cities,
28 Aug. 2025
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Kretzmer-Seed felt strongly about the inclusion of psalms from the Hallel service as well as a Spanish-Portuguese prayer for those in captivity, which was originally written for victims of the Spanish Inquisition.—
Marla Brown Fogelman,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Aug. 2025
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One student sang a heartfelt ballad about pineapples as her classmates rocked invisible pineapples in their arms.—
Jane Bua,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Her ballads were torch-song interludes that could have knocked them dead in lounges a century ago.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 25 Sep. 2025.
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