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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | musical |
| Synonyms: | choral, coloratura, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, poetic, songful, songlike, tuneful |
| Main Entry: | melody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmony, tune |
| Synonyms: | air, aria, assonance, carillon, chant, chime, concord, consonance, descant, diapason, euphony, inflection, lay, lyric, measure, melodiousness, music, musicality, refrain, resonance, run, song, strain, theme, tunefulness, unison |
| Antonyms: | cacophony, disharmony |
| Main Entry: | ode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poem |
| Synonyms: | ballad, composition, epode, limerick, lyric, poesy, rhyme, song, sonnet, verse |
| Main Entry: | poem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
| Synonyms: | ballad, beat, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poesy, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words, writing |
| Antonyms: | prose |
| Main Entry: | poetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition |
| Synonyms: | anapestic, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, epodic, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, odic, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful |
| Antonyms: | prosaic |
| Main Entry: | romance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fanciful story or narrative |
| Synonyms: | ballad, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, idealization, idyll, legend, love story, lyric, melodrama, novel, story, tale, tear-jerker |
| Main Entry: | song |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melody sung or played with musical instrument |
| Synonyms: | air, anthem, aria, ballad, canticle, carol, chant, chorale, chorus, ditty, expression, golden oldie, hymn, lay, lullaby, lyric, melody, number, oldie, opera, piece, poem, psalm, refrain, rock, rock and roll, round, shanty, strain, tune, verse, vocal |
| Main Entry: | verse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written composition |
| Synonyms: | ballad, epic, jingle, lay, lyric, ode, poem, poesy, poetry, rhyme, rune, song, sonnet, stanza |
| Notes: | technically, a stanza is a succession of lines that form a poem or song, and a verse is either a single line of writing or a series of lines in a song |
| Main Entry: | vocal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | articulate, articulated, choral, expressed, intonated, lyric, modulated, operatic, oral, phonetic, phonic, pronounced, put into words, said, singing, sonant, sung, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocalic, vocalized, voiced, vowel |
| Antonyms: | written |
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