rondelet

noun

Definition of rondeletnext
as in English sonnet

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rondelet
  1. psalm
  2. epigram
  3. poem
  4. madrigal
  5. pastoral
  6. ode
  7. elegy
  8. limerick
Noun
  • Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The great organ's 8,000 pipes, which were covered in toxic dust after the fire and have been disassembled, cleaned and retuned, will also play a psalm as the doors re-open.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of psalm
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Definition of epigram
Noun
  • English Pen, a human rights organization, translated one of her poems to raise awareness.
    Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • In an interview with Parents magazine in 2020, Duff revealed that Luca wrote a poem about their family and read it aloud at her and Koma's wedding.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of poem
Noun
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Definition of madrigal
Noun
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For those who make the trek, the week will be filled with events ranging from the pastoral to the glamourous to the overtly highbrow.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2024
Definition of pastoral
Noun
  • That latter category includes my No. 1 title, an ode to the glories of cinema that ends, in an utterly magical sequence, with all its major characters entering a movie theatre.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The film is an ode to Cincinnati and the Janson brothers Despite their lack of acting experience, the Jansons' on-screen performance was anything but amateur.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of ode
Noun
  • Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of elegy
Noun
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
Definition of limerick
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