antistrophe

Meaning of antistrophe

noun

the second section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it.

mid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric denoting the repetition of words in reverse order): via late Latin from Greek antistrophē, from antistrephein ‘turn against’, from anti ‘against’ + strephein ‘to turn’.

Information about antistrophe

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of antistrophe is: antistrophes.
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Hyphenation of antistrophe

an-ti-stro-phe

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • antistrophe is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Words that rhyme with antistrophe

anastrophe, angiostrophe, apostrophe, catastrophe, diastrophe, ecocatastrophe, embryotrophe, enstrophe, epanastrophe, epistrophe, hemotrophe, hypostrophe, limitrophe, metastrophe, monostrophe, strophe, supercatastrophe, philosophe, Christophe, Cristophe, tophe

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