antistrophe
pronunciation
How to pronounce antistrophe in British English:
UK ['æntɪstrəfi:]
How to pronounce antistrophe in American English:
US ['æntɪstrəfi]
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- Noun:
- the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem
Word Origin
- antistrophe (n.)
- c. 1600, from Latin, from Greek antistrophe "a turning about, a turning back," from antistrephein, from anti- "against" (see anti-) + strephein "to turn" (see strophe).