ANTISTROPHE

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 I. (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)

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