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rhapsody

[ rap-suh-dee ]

noun

plural rhapsodies.
  1. Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
  2. an ecstatic expression of feeling or enthusiasm.
  3. an epic poem, or a part of such a poem, as a book of the Iliad, suitable for recitation at one time.
  4. a similar piece of modern literature.
  5. an unusually intense or irregular poem or piece of prose.
  6. Archaic. a miscellaneous collection; jumble.


rhapsody

/ ˈ°ùæ±è²õÉ™»åɪ /

noun

  1. music a composition free in structure and highly emotional in character
  2. an expression of ecstatic enthusiasm
  3. (in ancient Greece) an epic poem or part of an epic recited by a rhapsodist
  4. a literary work composed in an intense or exalted style
  5. rapturous delight or ecstasy
  6. obsolete.
    a medley
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rhapsody1

1535–45; < Latin °ù³ó²¹±è²õŻ徱²¹ < Greek °ù³ó²¹±è²õž±»åí²¹ recital of epic poetry, equivalent to °ù³ó²¹±è²õž±»å ( ó²õ ) rhapsodist + -ia -y 3
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rhapsody1

C16: via Latin from Greek °ù³ó²¹±è²õž±»åia , from rhaptein to sew together + ž±»åŧ song
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And ‘rhapsody’ is the moment where the image hits the screen, where you’re taking a deep breath and you say, ‘What am I going to see?’

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Today, the Heritage Foundation and the Conservative Partnership Institute are promoting the Hungarian rhapsody, as it were.

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Their meeting was almost poetic, a confluence of basketball eras, a rhapsody in sneakers.

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His book has recipes, but really it’s an often funny rhapsody of awe at the joy allowed humans in the simple act of eating.

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Clothes can send Sophie into a rhapsody like nothing else does.

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