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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky