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Antistrophe
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. countable, uncountable
- 2 the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem wordnet
- 3 The lines of this part of the choral song. countable, uncountable
- 4 The repetition of words in an inverse order. countable, rhetoric, uncountable
- 5 The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).
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