STROPHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strophe mean? 

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

1. one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STROPHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

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

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