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Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse.

noun In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement.

noun In botany, one of the spirals formed in the development of leaves.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

It is hymnic in character, as opposed to the scoptic tone of the epirrhema.

noun The fourth part of the parabasis and first part of the epirrhematic syzygy.

noun In a narrower sense- The former of two metrically corresponding systems, as distinguished from the latter or antistrophe.

noun In ancient prosody: A system the metrical form of which is repeated once or oftener in the course of a poem also, a stanza in modern poetry.noun In music, one of the more or less complete divisions into which a piece in song or dance form is divided: analogous to stanza in verse.noun The part of a choral ode sung while this movement is executed.noun The first turning movement of the chorus from one side of the orchestra to the other in classical Greek drama.noun The first division of the triad constituting a section of a Pindaric ode.noun A stanza containing irregular lines.noun The first of a pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.