While those who drown a truth’s empiric part In dithyramb or dogma turn frenetic; — Than whom no writer could be less poetic He left this lesson for all verse, all art.
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Dithyramb
//ˈdɪθ.ɪ.ɹæm//
Synonyms for "dithyramb" (39 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (19)
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Translations
28 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- διθύραμβος noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Basque
1 entries- ditiranbo noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Belarusian
1 entries- дыфіра́мб noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дитира́мб noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Catalan
1 entries- ditirambe noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Esperanto
1 entries- ditirambo noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Estonian
1 entries- ditüramb noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Finnish
2 entries- dityrambi noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
- dityrambi noun (a poem or oration in the same style)
French
2 entries- dithyrambe noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
- dithyrambe noun (a poem or oration in the same style)
German
1 entries- Dithyrambos noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Greek
1 entries- διθύραμβος noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Hungarian
1 entries- dithürambosz noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Ido
1 entries- ditirambo noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Italian
1 entries- ditirambo noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Macedonian
1 entries- дитирамб noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Norwegian
1 entries- dityrambe noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- høystemt lovsang noun (a poem or oration in the same style)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- høgstemt(d) lovsong noun (a poem or oration in the same style)
Polish
2 entries- dytyramb noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
- dytyramb noun (a poem or oration in the same style)
Russian
2 entries- дифира́мб noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
- дифира́мб noun (a poem or oration in the same style)
Slovak
1 entries- dityramb noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Spanish
1 entries- ditirambo noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дитира́мб noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
- дифіра́мб noun (a choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
During the seven decades that have elapsed since that distracted wife, mother, and blindly impassioned mistress threw herself beneath the wheels of the train - thus terminating, with a gesture symbolic of what already had happened to her soul, her tragedy of disorientation - a tumultuous and unremitting dithyramb of romances, news reports, and unrecorded cries of anguish has been going up to the honor of the bull-demon of the labyrinth: the wrathful, destructive, maddening aspect of the same god who, when benign, is the vivifying principle of the world.
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