strophe

Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”). Compare strap and strop.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹəʊ.fi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹoʊ.fi/
• Rhymes: -əʊfi
• Hyphenation: stro‧phe

strophe (plural strophes)

1. (prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
2. (prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
3. (prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.

• antistrophe
• apostrophe
• catastrophe
• strophic

• ode
• stanza

• preshot, Stopher, Thorpes, pothers, thorpes

Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ).

• IPA^(key): /stʁɔf/

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strophe f (plural strophes)

1. (poetry) stanza

• “strophe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.