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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--ode This week's theme: words about poetry. ode (rhymes with code) noun A lyric poem celebrating a person, event, thing, etc., written in an exalted style. [From Greek oide (song), ultimately from Indo-European root wed- (to speak) that's also the source of parody, comedy, tragedy, melody, and rhapsody.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The song, an ode to the nation on the occasion of Independence Day, takes on an extra dimension after 7/11* with its inspirational words." Rajiv Vijayakar; Sonu Nigam's Ode to the Nation; Screen Weekly (New Delhi, India); Aug 11, 2006. *July 11, 2006 bomb blasts in commuter trains in Mumbai, India. X-Bonus The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -Andrew Tanenbaum, computer science professor (1944- )

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