Antistrophe: Definition and part of speech

Antistrophe

  1. n. The retort or turning of an adversary’s plea against him.
  2. n. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.
  3. n. The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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