antistrophes

Meaning of antistrophes

plural noun

the second section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it.

mid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric denoting the repetition of words in reverse order): via late Latin from Greek antistrophē, from antistrephein ‘turn against’, from anti ‘against’ + strephein ‘to turn’.

Information about antistrophes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of antistrophes is: antistrophe.
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Hyphenation of antistrophes

an-ti-stro-phes

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
  • antistrophes is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Anagrams of antistrophes

Thesprotians

Words that rhyme with antistrophes

bathyscaphes, mesoscaphes, monographes, raphes, rhaphes, Ephes, Ommastrephes, acalephes, diotrephes, ommastrephes, ciniphes, anastrophes, apostrophes, catastrophes, ecocatastrophes, epistrophes, hypostrophes, monostrophes, philosophes, strophes, tophes, Lepidosphes, ouphes, coryphes

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