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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANTISTROPHE

Via Late Latin from Greek antistrophē an answering turn, from anti- + strophē a turning.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTISTROPHE

antistrophe  [ænˈtɪstrəfɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTISTROPHE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antistrophe is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTISTROPHE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antistrophe

Antistrophe is the portion of an ode sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west. It has the nature of a reply and balances the effect of the strophe. Thus, in Gray's ode called "The Progress of Poesy", the strophe, which dwelt in triumphant accents on the beauty, power and ecstasy verse, is answered by the antistrophe, in a depressed and melancholy key: "Man's feeble race what ills await, Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease and Sorrow's weeping Train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate," etc. When the sections of the chorus have ended their responses, they unite and close in the epode, thus exemplifying the triple m in which the ancient sacred hymns of Greece were coined, from the days of Stesichorus onwards. As Milton says, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed for the music then used with the chorus that sang." Antistrophe was also a kind of ancient dance, wherein dancers stepped sometimes to the right, and sometimes to the left, still doubling their turns or conversions.

Definition of antistrophe in the English dictionary

The first definition of antistrophe in the dictionary is the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode. Other definition of antistrophe is the second part of a choral ode sung during this movement. Antistrophe is also the second of two metrical systems used alternately within a poem.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTISTROPHE


amyotrophy
ˌæmɪˈɒtrəfɪ
anastrophe
əˈnæstrəfɪ
apostrophe
əˈpɒstrəfɪ
atrophy
ˈætrəfɪ
cacotrophy
kæˈkɒtrəfɪ
catastrophe
kəˈtæstrəfɪ
dystrophy
ˈdɪstrəfɪ
ecocatastrophe
ˌiːkəʊkəˈtæstrəfɪ
epistrophe
ɪˈpɪstrəfɪ
eutrophy
ˈjuːtrəfɪ
exstrophy
ˈɛkstrəfɪ
heterostrophy
hetəˈrɒstrəfɪ
heterotrophy
ˌhɛtəˈrɒtrəfɪ
hypertrophy
haɪˈpɜːtrəfɪ
hypostrophe
haɪˈpɒstrəfɪ
leukodystrophy
ˌluːkəʊˈdɪstrəfɪ
lipodystrophy
ˌlɪpəʊˈdɪstrəfɪ
monostrophe
mɒˈnɒstrəfɪ
oligotrophy
ˌɒlɪˈɡɒtrəfɪ
paedotrophy
piːˈdɒtrəfɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTISTROPHE

antispeculative
antispending
antistat
antistate
antistatic
Antisthenes
antistick
antistory
antistress
antistrike
antistrophic
antistrophically
antistrophon
antistudent
antistyle
antisubmarine
antisubsidy
antisubversion
antisubversive
antisuicide

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTISTROPHE

acalephe
all the
apache
Arc de Triomphe
bathyscaphe
breathe
cache
Christophe
coryphe
fiche
he
limitrophe
Marche
mesoscaphe
microfiche
philosophe
raphe
she
strophe
the

Synonyms and antonyms of antistrophe in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antistrophe» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTISTROPHE

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The translations of antistrophe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antistrophe» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

antistrophe
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antistrophe
570 millions of speakers

English

antistrophe
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

antistrophe
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

antistrophe
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антистрофа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antistrophe
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

antistrophe
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Antistrophe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antistrophe
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Antistrophe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

antistrophe
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

antistrophe
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antistrophe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

antistrophe
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆண்டிஸ்ட்ரோப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Antistrophe
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

antistrophe
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antistrofe
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antystrofa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антистрофа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antistrofa
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

antistrophe
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antistrophe
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

antistrophe
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antistrophe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antistrophe

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTISTROPHE»

The term «antistrophe» is normally little used and occupies the 144.463 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTISTROPHE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antistrophe

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTISTROPHE»

Discover the use of antistrophe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antistrophe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction
STROPHE A + refrain A ANTISTROPHE A + refrain A STROPHE B + refrain B ANTISTROPHE B + refrain B Strophe and Antistrophe A both start with someone coming: 'Justice' coming to Troy, and Orestes coming to kill his mother. In the fourth ...
David Wiles, 2000
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Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric
cus about this work makes clear that the idea of the antistrophe between the two arts was already present in it. The historical antistrophe between Zeno and Empedocles was thus reinforcing, and reinforced by, the theoretical antistrophe ...
Amélie Rorty, 1996
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Tentamen de metris ab Aeschylo in choricis cantibus adhibitis
Charles Burney. Quae sequuntur Lyrica (313. — 476.) formam Antistrophicam adsumere videntur : eâ tarnen lege, ut inter quamque Strophen, suamque Antistrophen, alia Strophe, vel alia Antistrophe, Tel etiam Anapaesti, plerumque locum ...
Charles Burney, 1809
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The Englis Ode
Canzoni Eroiche: LXXXIV (p. 193), strophe and anti- strophe, a b b a c c, epode, a a b c c b; LXXXVT (p. 198), strophe and antistrophe, a a b c c b, epode, a b b a c c c ; LXXXVIII (p. 203), strophe and antistrophe, a b b a a c c, epode, a b b a c c ...
Robert Shafer
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Book of Psalms
... Antistrophic 3 41 Dramatic lyric Antistrophic 3 53 Prayer Strophic 3 54 Prayer Antistrophic 3 42 Dramatic lyric Stanza 3 39 Vision Antistrophic 1 24 Meditation Stanza 3 49 Dramatic anthem Mixed stanza 4 63 Song (trust) Antistrophe & Stanza ...
George Carter, 2008
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Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, ...
Most of the formal songs are structured as a series of pairs of stanzas of which the metrical form of the first one (“strophe”) is repeated exactly by a second one (“ antistrophe”). Thus the metrical struc— ture will be, e.g., strophe A, antistrophe A,  ...
Euripides, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, 2013
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Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Most of the formal songs are structured as a series of pairs of stanzas of which the metrical form of the first one (“strophe”) is repeated exactly by a second one (“ antistrophe”). Thus the metrical struc— ture will be, e.g., strophe A, antistrophe A,  ...
Euripides, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, 2013
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Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
Most of the formal songs are structured as a series of pairs of stanzas of which the metrical form of the first one (“strophe”) is repeated exactly by a second one (“ antistrophe”). Thus the metrical struc— ture will be, e.g., strophe A, antistrophe A,  ...
Euripides, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, 2013
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Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The ...
Most of the formal songs are structured as a series of pairs of stanzas of which the metrical form of the first one (“strophe”) is repeated exactly by a second one (“ antistrophe”). Thus the metrical struc— ture will be, e.g., strophe A, antistrophe A,  ...
Aeschylus, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, 2013
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Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, ...
Most of the formal songs are structured as a series of pairs of stanzas of which the metrical form of the first one (“strophe”) is repeated exactly by a second one (“ antistrophe”). Thus the metrical struc— ture will be, e.g., strophe A, antistrophe A,  ...
Sophocles, Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTISTROPHE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antistrophe is used in the context of the following news items.
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Down by the Riverside: Thelonious Monk's High-Water Mark
... on top of one another in baroque layers of tone and overtone, “strophe and antistrophe”, to borrow one of Faulkner's favorite constructions. «PopMatters, Jun 15»
2
This Is the Next Step In White Sneakers
... a company that started selling handmade-in-Italy sneakers directly to consumers two years ago, sees it as the antistrophe of the formalized ... «Esquire.com, Jun 15»
3
Cleveland Orchestra wraps season with one last scintillating …
... percussionists who, in the fifth section, Antistrophe II, perform an extended duo cadenza of fierce rhythmic complexity and harmonic ingenuity ... «cleveland.com, Jun 15»
4
New York Philharmonic Sets 2015-16 Season of New-Music Series …
... and the U.S. Premiere of Strophe and Antistrophe from Chronochromie (1965, led by Lukas Foss). On the June 5, 2015, CONTACT! concert, ... «Broadway World, May 15»
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Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late April
A weirdly literary piece with a Greekish chorus serving as quasi-narrator, going strophe and antistrophe with Simon not-Stylites on his pillar, ... «Locus Online, Apr 15»
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How Scripted Television Is Artfully Focusing Its Lens on Food
The scene starts with a montage of knishes, cherry cheese danishes, the rhythmic strophe and antistrophe of a meat slicer, the bifurcation of ... «Eater, Mar 15»
7
'(a love story)' comes to Theatre UCF
In the background, a Greek chorus composed of an ant, a twig and three plant sprouts provides a surreal choral antistrophe to their human ... «Central Florida Future, Feb 15»
8
51s' Viola relives his role in the greatest college baseball game ever …
... had the enemy batters leaning and swaying with his motion, and, as antistrophe, was almost as exciting to watch as Darling's flare and flame. «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jun 14»
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'Sicarii Essenes,' 'Those of the Circumcision,' and Qumran
... ridiculing) and seeking to establish their own Righteousness, they do not submit to God's Righteousness (more of Paul's strophe, antistrophe, ... «Huffington Post, May 14»
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Kronos Quartet Kronos at 40 - Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York
... who had performed a separate show for Lincoln Center earlier, joined Kronos for “Strophe in Antistrophe”, another premiere, and embraced ... «PopMatters, Aug 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Antistrophe [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/antistrophe>. Apr 2024 ».
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