A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.
O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.
Phrases & Compounds
Ode factor
one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.