antistrophe

antistrophe has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.
• n.. The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.
• n.. the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem