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Heroic poem or piece of music
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rhapsody
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an epic poem adapted for recitation
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rhapsody was the code name given to Apple Computer 's next-generation operating system during the period of its development between Apple's purchase of NeXT in late 1996 and the announcement of Mac OS X in 1998. It consisted primarily of the OPENSTEP operating ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhapsody \Rhap"so*dy\, n.; pl. Rhapsodies . [F. rhapsodie, L. rhapsodia, Gr. "rapsw,di`a, fr. "rapsw,do`s a rhapsodist; "ra`ptein to sew, stitch together, unite + 'w,dh` a song. See Ode .] A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic ...
Usage examples of rhapsody.
The row that had ensued served as an unpleasant but effective introduction, not only between Ashe and herself, but Ashe and Rhapsody as well.
Rhapsody had said nothing, Ashe picked up on her increased nervousness.
Rhapsody had not been able to conjure up her image since before Ashe came to the mountain.
Rhapsody felt the urge to sing her morning aubade, but her voice would not sound.
Rhapsody watched as the bright celestial light dimmed in the brightening sky, then began to sing her last customary aubade, the song to Seren, the star she was born beneath, on the other side of the world.
In her brief time as queen, Rhapsody had taught the aubade to Tyrian, and in turn the forest had taught it to them.
Rhapsody cleared her throat, ragged from the salt, and quietly sang one of the ancient aubades, the love songs to the sky that Liringlas had been marking time with for as long as she knew.
The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel: he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds.
Immediately the two dogs hurled themselves out, and fell upon Ern and Fatty in rhapsodies of joy, barking, licking, pawing as if they had gone mad.
This rhapsody or ecstasy is all that these idolaters of reason will concede.
He thought back to all the times when Rhapsody had patiently explained to him the need for a Namer to speak only the truth, to be wary of what was said, even in jest, because words could become reality.
But you see, Rhapsody, because you are a Namer, you are particularly vulnerable to something like that.
Would the magical sacrifice that Rhapsody, the elderly Liringlas Namer, and Gwydion of Manosse, a broken man dead in the eyes of the world, had undertaken to bring him into the world still be necessary in the Future?
I hardly know whether I was more startled at first hearing, in little dainty namby pamby tones, a profession of Atheism over a teacup, or at having my attention called from a Johnny cake, to a rhapsody on election and the second birth.
His eyes scanned the Rings of the basilica, coming to rest after a moment on the section in which Rhapsody and Rial stood.