as in poem
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
If North Island was an ode to solitude and seclusion, Raffles was the exhale — a place where the rhythm of daily life matched the sway of the palms.
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Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
Coogler’s most personal film to date, this celebration of Black culture and an ode to the Blues broke the record for the highest-grossing opening for an original film released so far this decade.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
The name for the new concept is an ode to farm-to-table fare, Danielson said.
—Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
And of course, make an ode to how gay the show is.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
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Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Oct. 2025
Coogler’s most personal film to date, this celebration of Black culture and an ode to the Blues broke the record for the highest-grossing opening for an original film released so far this decade.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
The name for the new concept is an ode to farm-to-table fare, Danielson said.
—Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
And of course, make an ode to how gay the show is.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ode
Noun
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According to the explanation on the museum’s website, the use of poppies has its origins in a poem that was penned by a Canadian physician who had served as a field surgeon in Belgium during the Great War.—
Emily Curiel,
Kansas City Star,
12 Nov. 2025
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Moon’s poems suggest Buddhist ideologies and Korean temples, yet the works remain largely free of cultural-specific imagery and are, instead, naturalistic or universal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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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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There is one person in The Queen of Versailles who, beyond the content of her lyrics, is worth listening to, and that’s Victoria.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Byrne’s lyrics are famously inquisitive.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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It's got a lot going on, but there's a reason to every rhyme.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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There is no momentum or rhyme to the reasoning of giving the co-starters alternating drives.—
DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Oct. 2025
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Somehow, in honoring the group’s women, from the rageful housewife Margie (Betsy Aidem) to the radical author Celeste (Kristolyn Lloyd), Flood’s outpouring becomes a lament.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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Continue reading … WAR OF WORDS – AOC weighs in after Republican laments 'humiliation' of Mamdani campaigning in Arabic.—
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FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Celebrated author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings Homer’s great epic to vividly poetic new life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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This film, released in 2023, is Scorsese’s historical crime epic about the Osage murders of the 1920s.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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Tutivillus, who totted up all the mistakes clergymen made when singing hymns or reciting psalms.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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The basilica was temporarily shut down on Monday, Oct. 13, and prayers and psalms were said as holy water was showered on the altar, according to the outlet.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot in 1976.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
10 Nov. 2025
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The love ballad was notably performed during a wedding scene in the 2018 rom-com Crazy Rich Asians.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Ode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ode. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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