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rhapsody
[ rap-suh-dee ]
noun
plural rhapsodies.
- Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- an ecstatic expression of feeling or enthusiasm.
- an epic poem, or a part of such a poem, as a book of the Iliad, suitable for recitation at one time.
- a similar piece of modern literature.
- an unusually intense or irregular poem or piece of prose.
- Archaic. a miscellaneous collection; jumble.
rhapsody
/ ˈ°ùæ±è²õÉ™»åɪ /
noun
- music a composition free in structure and highly emotional in character
- an expression of ecstatic enthusiasm
- (in ancient Greece) an epic poem or part of an epic recited by a rhapsodist
- a literary work composed in an intense or exalted style
- rapturous delight or ecstasy
- obsolete.a medley
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rhapsody1
1535–45; < Latin °ù³ó²¹±è²õŻ徱²¹ < Greek °ù³ó²¹±è²õž±»åò¹ 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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