| Main Entry: | paean |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hymn of praise |
Synonyms: |
acclamation, anthem, hymn, laud, laudation, ode, pean, praise, psalm, song |
| Main Entry: | anthem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | song |
Synonyms: |
canticle, chant, chorus, hymn, melody, paean |
| Main Entry: | eulogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | praise, acclamation |
Synonyms: |
acclaim, accolade, adulation, applause, citation, commendation, compliment, encomium, exaltation, glorification, laudation, paean, panegyric, plaudit, salutation, tribute |
| Notes: | if you give someone a dyslogy, you make a speech with a number of uncomplimentary remarks about them (the opposite of eulogy) |
Antonyms: |
calumny, condemnation, criticism |
| Main Entry: | hymn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religious song |
Synonyms: |
alleluia, aria, canticle, carol, chant, choral, chorale, descant, ditty, evensong, hallelujah, hosanna, laud, lay, lied, littany, ode, oratorio, paean, psalm, shout, song of praise, worship song |
| Main Entry: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expressive, rhythmic literary work |
Synonyms: |
balladry, doggerel, metrical composition, paean, poems, poesy, rhyme, rhyming, rime, rune, song, stanza, verse, versification |
Antonyms: |
prose |
| Main Entry: | psalm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | song of praise |
Synonyms: |
canticle, celebration, chant, chorale, eulogy, hymn, paean, shout, verse |
| Main Entry: | poetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Poetry. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
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-nouns
poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring., versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry., poem; epic, epic poem; epopee, epopoca, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy; amoebeaum, ghazal, palinode., dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae, song, ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music; nursery rhymes., [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics; macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes., canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe., verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation (voice); dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus., elegiacs; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry., poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger; improvisatore; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist, rhymester; ballad monger, runer; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum.
-verbs
poetize, sing, versity, make verses, rhyme, scan.
-adjectives
poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic; metrical; acatalectic, catalectic; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic; amoebeeic, Melibean, skaldic; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric.
-phrases
"a poem round and perfect as a star" [Alex. Smith); Dichtung und Wahrheit; furor poeticus; "his virtues formed the magic of his song" [Hayley]; "I do but sing because I must" [Tennyson]; "I learnt life from the poets" [de Stael]; licentia vatum; mutum est pictura poema; "O for a muse of fire!" [Henry V]; "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge" [Sidney]; "the true poem is the poet's mind" [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter und Denker;
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Antonyms: |
prose |
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