DITHYRAMB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dithyramb mean? 

• DITHYRAMB (noun)
  The noun DITHYRAMB has 2 senses:

1. a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing

2. (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)

  Familiarity information: DITHYRAMB used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DITHYRAMB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dithyramb" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dithyramb" is a kind of...):

anthem; hymn (a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation))

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Domain region:

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)