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Definition of Choral ode
1. Noun. Ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama.
Generic synonyms: Ode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choral Ode
Literary usage of Choral ode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1890)
"The famous choral ode of SOPHOCLES, descriptive of Colonos, is full of striking
particulars poetically rendered, but there is no attempt to make them hang ..."
2. A Song of the Sea: My Lady of Dreams : and Other Poems by Eric Mackay (1895)
"... A choral ode TO LIBERTY iO SUN LIKE Liberty, with eyes of flame, Mother and
maid, immortal, man's delight! Fairest and first art thou in name and fame, ..."