ANTISTROPHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antistrophe mean? 

• ANTISTROPHE (noun)
  The noun ANTISTROPHE has 1 sense:

1. the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem

  Familiarity information: ANTISTROPHE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTISTROPHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("antistrophe" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

Holonyms ("antistrophe" is a part of...):

lyric; lyric poem (a short poem of songlike quality)