RHAPSODY
\ɹˈapsədi], \ɹˈapsədi], \ɹ_ˈa_p_s_ə_d_i]\
Definitions of RHAPSODY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; - called also a book.
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A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies.
By Oddity Software
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A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; - called also a book.
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A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies.
By Noah Webster.
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A disconnected composition, composed under the influence of excitement and marked by over-enthusiasm; rapturous utterance; a musical composition.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Any wild unconnected composition: a part of an epic poem for recitation at one time.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Greek] A collection of verses; especially, one of the books of Homer learnt and sung or recited by the rhapsodists;— hence, any number of pieces or passages gathered together without natural connection or coherence;— a wild, rambling composition or discourse.
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