This week's theme: words about poetry. ode (rhymes with code) noun
A lyric poem celebrating a person, event, thing, etc., written in an exalted style. [From Greek oide (song), ultimately from Indo-European root wed- (to speak) that's also the source of parody, comedy, tragedy, melody, and rhapsody.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=ode -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The song, an ode to the nation on the occasion of Independence Day, takes on an extra dimension after 7/11* with its inspirational words." Rajiv Vijayakar; Sonu Nigam's Ode to the Nation; Screen Weekly (New Delhi, India); Aug 11, 2006. *July 11, 2006 bomb blasts in commuter trains in Mumbai, India. This newsletter is made possible in part by: Derivation, a fascinating game about word and phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com And readers like you. Thank you! ............................................................................ The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -Andrew Tannenbaum, computer science professor (1944- ) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/ode.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/ode.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/ode.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
