Associations to the word «Ode»

Wiktionary

ODE, noun. A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
ODE, noun. Initialism of Oxford Dictionary of English.
ODE, noun. (analysis) Initialism of ordinary differential equation.
ODE, noun. (computing) Initialism of Apache ODE.

Dictionary definition

ODE, noun. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope