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STROPHE
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I. (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)