[ UK /ɹˈæpsədi/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæpsədi/ ]
NOUN
  1. an enthusiastic expression of emotion
    rhapsodies of joy
  2. (music) a free instrumental composition in one extended movement; typically emotional or exuberant in character
  3. (in ancient Greece) an epic poem adapted for recitation
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How To Use rhapsody In A Sentence

  • The first from Bohemian Rhapsody era and the other from I Wanna Break Free moustachio-ed housewife video. Two Nights Out
  • It is hard not to be carried away by the madness of the Grand galop chromatique or by the arrogance (in the best possible sense of the word) of the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody.
  • If the chronological ordering of the Suzumiya Haruhi light novel series is strictly observed and the two preceding inferences are correct, the first episode of the new season will probably be an adaptation of Sasa no Ha Rhapsody and will probably air on 22 May or shortly thereafter, by which time - based on the 03 April start date of the "rebroadcast" - a gap will exist in the light novel material already covered by the first season. Anime Nano!
  • Sound (aka rhapsody) was a Pratt and Whitney tuning up after a 240-hour check. SHARKFORUM: OPINION WITH TEETH
  • On this occasion he will be performing one prelude and fugue by Bach, a Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt and ‘Airs of Spain’ by Albeniz.
  • 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.
  • We cannot guess how he found these things out, for corslets are as common in one "rhapsody" as in another when circumstances call for the mention of corslets, and are entirely unnamed in the Odyssey Homer and His Age
  • They're not, in fact, the kind of arms that have you thinking of Handel, or castrati, or a Cleopatra played with Bollywood wit, or magic flutes, or consumptive courtesans dying in attics, but that's what we're here to talk about, so I dip a toe in the water with a little rhapsody on Giulio Cesare and over-egg the pudding with a reference to McVicar's favourite period, the 18th century. Christina Patterson: Interview With David McVicar: "I Am Good at What I Do Because I Care So Much"
  • Elsewhere, a rhapsody about Roughgarden's own experience as an embryo turns gushingly cosmic.
  • The poem of Fingal, he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images.
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