Crossword-Solution: ANTISTROPHE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Antistrophe | n. | In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. |
| Antistrophe | n. | The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master. |
| Antistrophe | n. | The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANTISTROPHE | anagram | STOPTHERAIN |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ANTISTROPHE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| GREEK drama, feature of | 1 answer |
| ODE, part of | 1 answer |
| the repetition of words in reverse order | 1 answer |
| Dance | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ANTISTROPHE (5)
Notwithstanding what German critics have written on the subject, we must beware of regarding this conception as a mere reproduction of that cyclic theory of events which sees in the world nothing but the regular rotation of Strophe and Antistrophe, in the eternal choir of life and death.
The measure of Verse us'd in the Chorus is of all sorts, call'd by the Greeks Monostrophic, or rather Apolelymenon, without regard had to Strophe, Antistrophe or Epod, which were a kind of Stanza's fram'd only for the Music, then us'd with the Chorus that sung; not essential to the Poem, and therefore not material; or being divided into Stanza's or Pauses they may be call'd Allaeostropha.
His mind see-sawed in strophe and antistrophe: “You can't move!”--“I will move!” “You're beaten”--“I'm not beat.” “Give up”--“I won't.” That struggle to find his hands seemed to last for ever--he must find them! After that--go down--all standing--after that! Everything round him was red.
The rhythm of alternating dawn and sunset, the strophe and antistrophe still perceptible through all the sudden shifts of our dithyrambic seasons and echoed in corresponding floral harmonies, made melody in the soul of Abel, the plain serving-man.
The more I chanted antistrophe to her strophe of lamentation the more was I welcome in her drawing-room.