Definition of rhapsody in English:

rhapsody

nounPlural rhapsodies ˈrapsədiˈræpsədi

1An effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.
狂热（或欣喜）的表现
rhapsodies of praise
狂热赞词。
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of the most interesting parts early in the movie occur when Varda moves away from the bohemian rhapsody, and follows Clarke, as she is guided through late 1960s LA in a taxi, allowing Varda's documentary instinct to kick in.
- There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation.
- John's affairs inspire him with no heartfelt rhapsodies as did his early love for Lucy.
- This explanation for the venerable, 400-year-old vampire population of Transylvania being so numerically insignificant is, however, contradicted by Van Helsing's earlier rhapsodies on the subject.
- He's written a book called the Natural History of Australia so he knows the place very well and I found him at the Darwin Museum with a remarkable fish and rhapsodies about the Adelaide River.
- His language might at times ascend to rhapsody, yet his was an uncommonly practical approach - radical in the sense of attacking the preeminent social problem at its root, but basically conservative as to method.
- When the same sentence is reproduced verbatim in the blurb, one feels that the book will be long on rhapsodies and short on substance.
- There are then slow rhapsodies about the power of art to change society - and more lame jokes.
- The rhapsody draws a moral from the mundane machine; Zhang Shunmin sees in the mechanical movement of the mill the steady moral virtue of the scholar-official.
- It is a creation of his old age but the scintillating youthful spirit with which it sparkles inclines one to believe that the grand old man was reliving his lost youth through this romantic rhapsody of a story.
- A few notes from the rhapsody of praise composed in his honour in his lifetime should be enough to whet new curiosity.
- Curtis captures the angst of first love, the rhapsody of a first kiss and the intricacy of families.
- This story would be highly unremarkable if not for the fact that William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and cyberpunk pioneer, wrote a little rhapsody to the Selectric type ball.
- Elsewhere, a rhapsody about Roughgarden's own experience as an embryo turns gushingly cosmic.
- Kuerten sends the Parisian crowd into rhapsody by winning the longest rally of the match with a thrilling forehand pass.
- A rhapsody of intricate plots emerges and, with luck, hilarity ensues.
- The ethos has little in common with that of science fiction; rather, it's a rhapsody on the miraculous benefits the Victorians were expecting their harnessing of electricity to bring to them.
- And he is not likely to be reassured by the rhapsody in which George identifies the blessings of a triumphant single tax with ‘the city of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl!’
- I could go on at length about how great he is and how well the relationship works but I'll spare you the rhapsodies.
- Mr. Kumar has been able to capture the rhapsody of colours of Nature in full bloom.
Synonyms
elation, euphoria, exultation, exaltation, joy, happiness, delight, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, ecstasy, bliss
1. 1.1Music A free instrumental composition in one extended movement, typically one that is emotional in character.
  〔乐〕狂想曲
  Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wider success came with the orchestral rhapsody España, composed after a visit to Spain in 1882, which remains his best-known work.
  Being Sunday, several families were on the Necklace Road to take in the classical rhapsodies.
  Small's score turns into a gloppy Middle-European rhapsody as she walks into the old man's office in a shining black metallic gown and feather boa.
  As in the rhapsody, Hadley's music makes its subject appear with utter clarity in the mind's eye.
  The strange songs he would sing during his morning shower were a constant source of bemusement to all who had the luxury of hearing his rhapsody.
  Synonyms
  elation, happiness, joy, joyousness, delight, glee, excitement, exhilaration, animation, jubilation, exultation
2(in ancient Greece) an epic poem, or part of a poem, of a suitable length for recitation at one time.
（古希腊）吟诵史诗；（长度适合一次吟诵的）史诗的一节
Example sentencesExamples
- I had translations of the old Mongolian rhapsodies and epodes in English, French, Italian, and German.
- There is more to be found in the rhapsody's orality, in archaisms and the atavistic language, in orality and folklore, in clerical-juggleresque rhetoric.
- Write a cycle of business poems - a rhapsody to measurable results.

Derivatives

rhapsodic

adjective rapˈsɒdɪkræpˈsɑdɪk

Of course she had a death or two to report with the appropriately morbid funereal details but she absolutely waxed rhapsodic about the church renovation and expansion project for which she was the principal fundraiser and organizer.
Example sentencesExamples
- Garance Franke-Ruta brought my attention to a David Brooks column in which he waxes rhapsodic about a phenomenon he calls ‘natalism,’ in which white people move to the suburbs and have babies.
- The film's reception at the time was overshadowed by its extravagant cost (50 times the average French budget), but Les Amants du Pont-Neuf is rhapsodic cinema at any price.
- Pelletier readily brings out the sensuous, rhapsodic elements of ‘L' ile joyeuse ’, and captures the jaunty, toccata-like spirit of ‘Masques’.
- Oddly for a man who pursues sensual things, Saatchi does not share Lawson's rhapsodic appreciation of food.

rhapsodical

adjective rapˈsɒdɪk(ə)l

The rhapsodical panegyric style is barely readable today without a faint sense of unease and suspicion as to what kind of affair it was that made Evelyn quite so determined to spiritualise it after the event.

rhapsodically

adverb rapˈsɒdɪk(ə)li

International festivals proliferated and ancient bonds were re-established as musicians embraced folk-rock, toured widely and were rhapsodically welcomed.
Example sentencesExamples
- This was not a human/pet relationship, but a friendship, a partnership, perhaps even a kind of love affair: witnesses speak of Maxwell rolling about on the floor with Mij, man mewing rhapsodically to otter.
- I crawled rhapsodically back into bed and fell into some very vivid and memorable dreams.
- But Rosette waxes rhapsodically a little too much with his sugary, cliched conclusion.
- I was actually on a plane returning from Europe this week, and the pilot at one point seized the intercom and waxed rhapsodically about the gates, urging passengers to experience ‘something wonderful.’

Origin

Mid 16th century (in sense 2): via Latin from Greek rhapsōidia, from rhaptein 'to stitch' + ōidē 'song, ode'.

Rhapsody comes from Greek rhaptein ‘to stitch’, and its earliest sense carries the idea of words woven together. In the 16th century a rhapsody was a long poem, like Homer's Odyssey or Iliad, suitable for recitation. From this developed first the idea of a medley or collection, and then the sense of pleasure and approval expressed with enthusiasm rather than careful thought. The musical sense developed in the late 19th century.

Definition of rhapsody in US English:

rhapsody

nounˈrapsədēˈræpsədi

1An effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.
狂热（或欣喜）的表现
rhapsodies of praise
狂热赞词。
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of the most interesting parts early in the movie occur when Varda moves away from the bohemian rhapsody, and follows Clarke, as she is guided through late 1960s LA in a taxi, allowing Varda's documentary instinct to kick in.
- John's affairs inspire him with no heartfelt rhapsodies as did his early love for Lucy.
- A rhapsody of intricate plots emerges and, with luck, hilarity ensues.
- The rhapsody draws a moral from the mundane machine; Zhang Shunmin sees in the mechanical movement of the mill the steady moral virtue of the scholar-official.
- Mr. Kumar has been able to capture the rhapsody of colours of Nature in full bloom.
- There are then slow rhapsodies about the power of art to change society - and more lame jokes.
- Curtis captures the angst of first love, the rhapsody of a first kiss and the intricacy of families.
- And he is not likely to be reassured by the rhapsody in which George identifies the blessings of a triumphant single tax with ‘the city of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl!’
- When the same sentence is reproduced verbatim in the blurb, one feels that the book will be long on rhapsodies and short on substance.
- There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation.
- It is a creation of his old age but the scintillating youthful spirit with which it sparkles inclines one to believe that the grand old man was reliving his lost youth through this romantic rhapsody of a story.
- This story would be highly unremarkable if not for the fact that William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and cyberpunk pioneer, wrote a little rhapsody to the Selectric type ball.
- He's written a book called the Natural History of Australia so he knows the place very well and I found him at the Darwin Museum with a remarkable fish and rhapsodies about the Adelaide River.
- Elsewhere, a rhapsody about Roughgarden's own experience as an embryo turns gushingly cosmic.
- The ethos has little in common with that of science fiction; rather, it's a rhapsody on the miraculous benefits the Victorians were expecting their harnessing of electricity to bring to them.
- His language might at times ascend to rhapsody, yet his was an uncommonly practical approach - radical in the sense of attacking the preeminent social problem at its root, but basically conservative as to method.
- Kuerten sends the Parisian crowd into rhapsody by winning the longest rally of the match with a thrilling forehand pass.
- I could go on at length about how great he is and how well the relationship works but I'll spare you the rhapsodies.
- A few notes from the rhapsody of praise composed in his honour in his lifetime should be enough to whet new curiosity.
- This explanation for the venerable, 400-year-old vampire population of Transylvania being so numerically insignificant is, however, contradicted by Van Helsing's earlier rhapsodies on the subject.
Synonyms
elation, euphoria, exultation, exaltation, joy, happiness, delight, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, ecstasy, bliss
1. 1.1Music A free instrumental composition in one extended movement, typically one that is emotional or exuberant in character.
  〔乐〕狂想曲
  Example sentencesExamples
  The strange songs he would sing during his morning shower were a constant source of bemusement to all who had the luxury of hearing his rhapsody.
  Small's score turns into a gloppy Middle-European rhapsody as she walks into the old man's office in a shining black metallic gown and feather boa.
  As in the rhapsody, Hadley's music makes its subject appear with utter clarity in the mind's eye.
  Being Sunday, several families were on the Necklace Road to take in the classical rhapsodies.
  Wider success came with the orchestral rhapsody España, composed after a visit to Spain in 1882, which remains his best-known work.
  Synonyms
  elation, happiness, joy, joyousness, delight, glee, excitement, exhilaration, animation, jubilation, exultation
2(in ancient Greece) an epic poem, or part of it, of a suitable length for recitation at one time.
（古希腊）吟诵史诗；（长度适合一次吟诵的）史诗的一节
Example sentencesExamples
- There is more to be found in the rhapsody's orality, in archaisms and the atavistic language, in orality and folklore, in clerical-juggleresque rhetoric.
- Write a cycle of business poems - a rhapsody to measurable results.
- I had translations of the old Mongolian rhapsodies and epodes in English, French, Italian, and German.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in rhapsody (sense 2)): via Latin from Greek rhapsōidia, from rhaptein ‘to stitch’ + ōidē ‘song, ode’.

词汇	rhapsody
释义	Definition of rhapsody in English: rhapsody nounPlural rhapsodies ˈrapsədiˈræpsədi 1An effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling. 狂热（或欣喜）的表现 rhapsodies of praise 狂热赞词。 Example sentencesExamples Some of the most interesting parts early in the movie occur when Varda moves away from the bohemian rhapsody, and follows Clarke, as she is guided through late 1960s LA in a taxi, allowing Varda's documentary instinct to kick in. There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation. John's affairs inspire him with no heartfelt rhapsodies as did his early love for Lucy. This explanation for the venerable, 400-year-old vampire population of Transylvania being so numerically insignificant is, however, contradicted by Van Helsing's earlier rhapsodies on the subject. He's written a book called the Natural History of Australia so he knows the place very well and I found him at the Darwin Museum with a remarkable fish and rhapsodies about the Adelaide River. His language might at times ascend to rhapsody, yet his was an uncommonly practical approach - radical in the sense of attacking the preeminent social problem at its root, but basically conservative as to method. When the same sentence is reproduced verbatim in the blurb, one feels that the book will be long on rhapsodies and short on substance. There are then slow rhapsodies about the power of art to change society - and more lame jokes. The rhapsody draws a moral from the mundane machine; Zhang Shunmin sees in the mechanical movement of the mill the steady moral virtue of the scholar-official. It is a creation of his old age but the scintillating youthful spirit with which it sparkles inclines one to believe that the grand old man was reliving his lost youth through this romantic rhapsody of a story. A few notes from the rhapsody of praise composed in his honour in his lifetime should be enough to whet new curiosity. Curtis captures the angst of first love, the rhapsody of a first kiss and the intricacy of families. This story would be highly unremarkable if not for the fact that William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and cyberpunk pioneer, wrote a little rhapsody to the Selectric type ball. Elsewhere, a rhapsody about Roughgarden's own experience as an embryo turns gushingly cosmic. Kuerten sends the Parisian crowd into rhapsody by winning the longest rally of the match with a thrilling forehand pass. A rhapsody of intricate plots emerges and, with luck, hilarity ensues. The ethos has little in common with that of science fiction; rather, it's a rhapsody on the miraculous benefits the Victorians were expecting their harnessing of electricity to bring to them. And he is not likely to be reassured by the rhapsody in which George identifies the blessings of a triumphant single tax with ‘the city of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl!’ I could go on at length about how great he is and how well the relationship works but I'll spare you the rhapsodies. Mr. Kumar has been able to capture the rhapsody of colours of Nature in full bloom. Synonyms elation, euphoria, exultation, exaltation, joy, happiness, delight, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, ecstasy, bliss 1.1Music A free instrumental composition in one extended movement, typically one that is emotional in character. 〔乐〕狂想曲 Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies Example sentencesExamples Wider success came with the orchestral rhapsody España, composed after a visit to Spain in 1882, which remains his best-known work. Being Sunday, several families were on the Necklace Road to take in the classical rhapsodies. Small's score turns into a gloppy Middle-European rhapsody as she walks into the old man's office in a shining black metallic gown and feather boa. As in the rhapsody, Hadley's music makes its subject appear with utter clarity in the mind's eye. The strange songs he would sing during his morning shower were a constant source of bemusement to all who had the luxury of hearing his rhapsody. Synonyms elation, happiness, joy, joyousness, delight, glee, excitement, exhilaration, animation, jubilation, exultation 2(in ancient Greece) an epic poem, or part of a poem, of a suitable length for recitation at one time. （古希腊）吟诵史诗；（长度适合一次吟诵的）史诗的一节 Example sentencesExamples I had translations of the old Mongolian rhapsodies and epodes in English, French, Italian, and German. There is more to be found in the rhapsody's orality, in archaisms and the atavistic language, in orality and folklore, in clerical-juggleresque rhetoric. Write a cycle of business poems - a rhapsody to measurable results. Derivatives rhapsodic adjective rapˈsɒdɪkræpˈsɑdɪk Of course she had a death or two to report with the appropriately morbid funereal details but she absolutely waxed rhapsodic about the church renovation and expansion project for which she was the principal fundraiser and organizer. Example sentencesExamples Garance Franke-Ruta brought my attention to a David Brooks column in which he waxes rhapsodic about a phenomenon he calls ‘natalism,’ in which white people move to the suburbs and have babies. The film's reception at the time was overshadowed by its extravagant cost (50 times the average French budget), but Les Amants du Pont-Neuf is rhapsodic cinema at any price. Pelletier readily brings out the sensuous, rhapsodic elements of ‘L' ile joyeuse ’, and captures the jaunty, toccata-like spirit of ‘Masques’. Oddly for a man who pursues sensual things, Saatchi does not share Lawson's rhapsodic appreciation of food. rhapsodical adjective rapˈsɒdɪk(ə)l The rhapsodical panegyric style is barely readable today without a faint sense of unease and suspicion as to what kind of affair it was that made Evelyn quite so determined to spiritualise it after the event. rhapsodically adverb rapˈsɒdɪk(ə)li International festivals proliferated and ancient bonds were re-established as musicians embraced folk-rock, toured widely and were rhapsodically welcomed. Example sentencesExamples This was not a human/pet relationship, but a friendship, a partnership, perhaps even a kind of love affair: witnesses speak of Maxwell rolling about on the floor with Mij, man mewing rhapsodically to otter. I crawled rhapsodically back into bed and fell into some very vivid and memorable dreams. But Rosette waxes rhapsodically a little too much with his sugary, cliched conclusion. I was actually on a plane returning from Europe this week, and the pilot at one point seized the intercom and waxed rhapsodically about the gates, urging passengers to experience ‘something wonderful.’ Origin Mid 16th century (in sense 2): via Latin from Greek rhapsōidia, from rhaptein 'to stitch' + ōidē 'song, ode'. Rhapsody comes from Greek rhaptein ‘to stitch’, and its earliest sense carries the idea of words woven together. In the 16th century a rhapsody was a long poem, like Homer's Odyssey or Iliad, suitable for recitation. From this developed first the idea of a medley or collection, and then the sense of pleasure and approval expressed with enthusiasm rather than careful thought. The musical sense developed in the late 19th century. Definition of rhapsody in US English: rhapsody nounˈrapsədēˈræpsədi 1An effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling. 狂热（或欣喜）的表现 rhapsodies of praise 狂热赞词。 Example sentencesExamples Some of the most interesting parts early in the movie occur when Varda moves away from the bohemian rhapsody, and follows Clarke, as she is guided through late 1960s LA in a taxi, allowing Varda's documentary instinct to kick in. John's affairs inspire him with no heartfelt rhapsodies as did his early love for Lucy. A rhapsody of intricate plots emerges and, with luck, hilarity ensues. The rhapsody draws a moral from the mundane machine; Zhang Shunmin sees in the mechanical movement of the mill the steady moral virtue of the scholar-official. Mr. Kumar has been able to capture the rhapsody of colours of Nature in full bloom. There are then slow rhapsodies about the power of art to change society - and more lame jokes. Curtis captures the angst of first love, the rhapsody of a first kiss and the intricacy of families. And he is not likely to be reassured by the rhapsody in which George identifies the blessings of a triumphant single tax with ‘the city of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl!’ When the same sentence is reproduced verbatim in the blurb, one feels that the book will be long on rhapsodies and short on substance. There were outpourings of prejudice and hatred, fantasies of violence accompanied by curses and epithets, psychotic rhapsodies, monologues of suicide and self-mutilation. It is a creation of his old age but the scintillating youthful spirit with which it sparkles inclines one to believe that the grand old man was reliving his lost youth through this romantic rhapsody of a story. This story would be highly unremarkable if not for the fact that William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and cyberpunk pioneer, wrote a little rhapsody to the Selectric type ball. He's written a book called the Natural History of Australia so he knows the place very well and I found him at the Darwin Museum with a remarkable fish and rhapsodies about the Adelaide River. Elsewhere, a rhapsody about Roughgarden's own experience as an embryo turns gushingly cosmic. The ethos has little in common with that of science fiction; rather, it's a rhapsody on the miraculous benefits the Victorians were expecting their harnessing of electricity to bring to them. His language might at times ascend to rhapsody, yet his was an uncommonly practical approach - radical in the sense of attacking the preeminent social problem at its root, but basically conservative as to method. Kuerten sends the Parisian crowd into rhapsody by winning the longest rally of the match with a thrilling forehand pass. I could go on at length about how great he is and how well the relationship works but I'll spare you the rhapsodies. A few notes from the rhapsody of praise composed in his honour in his lifetime should be enough to whet new curiosity. This explanation for the venerable, 400-year-old vampire population of Transylvania being so numerically insignificant is, however, contradicted by Van Helsing's earlier rhapsodies on the subject. Synonyms elation, euphoria, exultation, exaltation, joy, happiness, delight, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, ecstasy, bliss 1.1Music A free instrumental composition in one extended movement, typically one that is emotional or exuberant in character. 〔乐〕狂想曲 Example sentencesExamples The strange songs he would sing during his morning shower were a constant source of bemusement to all who had the luxury of hearing his rhapsody. Small's score turns into a gloppy Middle-European rhapsody as she walks into the old man's office in a shining black metallic gown and feather boa. As in the rhapsody, Hadley's music makes its subject appear with utter clarity in the mind's eye. Being Sunday, several families were on the Necklace Road to take in the classical rhapsodies. Wider success came with the orchestral rhapsody España, composed after a visit to Spain in 1882, which remains his best-known work. Synonyms elation, happiness, joy, joyousness, delight, glee, excitement, exhilaration, animation, jubilation, exultation 2(in ancient Greece) an epic poem, or part of it, of a suitable length for recitation at one time. （古希腊）吟诵史诗；（长度适合一次吟诵的）史诗的一节 Example sentencesExamples There is more to be found in the rhapsody's orality, in archaisms and the atavistic language, in orality and folklore, in clerical-juggleresque rhetoric. Write a cycle of business poems - a rhapsody to measurable results. I had translations of the old Mongolian rhapsodies and epodes in English, French, Italian, and German. Origin Mid 16th century (in rhapsody (sense 2)): via Latin from Greek rhapsōidia, from rhaptein ‘to stitch’ + ōidē ‘song, ode’.
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