different between poem vs aubade

English

Alternative forms

• poëm (rare or archaic)
• poeme (rare or archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”). Displaced native Old English l?oþ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p????m/, [?p?????m]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?po???m/, /po??m/, [?p?o(??)?m], [?p?o(??)m?], [?p?o(??)m]
• (India) IPA^(key): /?po???m/, [?po(??)?m]
• (Malaysia) IPA^(key): /poj?m/
• Rhymes: -???m, -??m

Noun

poem (plural poems)

1. A literary piece written in verse.
2. A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
3. A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

Holonyms

• poetry

Derived terms

Related terms

• poet
• poetic
• poetics
• poetry

Translations

Further reading

• poem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• poem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• poem at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mope, pome

Scots

Etymology

From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pom], [po?m]

Noun

poem (plural poems)

1. poem
   • 1985, John J. Graham, "E Wir ain aald language. Writin ida Shetland dialect", in Manfred Görlach, Focus on Scotland, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 193.

     Hit wisna till weel trowe da nineteent century at Shetlanders tried der haand at writin ida dialect — maistly poems, wi a antrin story noo an dan.

   • 1991, Chapman, No. 67-70, page 36.

     And Hugh MacDiarmid was and is A Brawli Makar, for as siccan folk hand tae 't as thrugaun as a poem itsel, he daes, an daes he no.

   • 2000, Chapman, No. 95-97, page 64.

     The pseudonym TSL first thocht on uisin stertin oot ti publish his wark wis Thrawn, an he uised this for whit we think micht be his first published poem in a Sooth African paper at haes (for nou) hidden itsel ower again amang the files.

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”).

Noun

poem n

1. poem

Declension

Vilamovian

Noun

poem n

1. poem

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Latin albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??b??d/

Noun

aubade (plural aubades)

1. A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn.
2. A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning.

Coordinate terms

• serenade
• nocturne

Translations

Further reading

• aubade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aubade”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubade, from Middle French aubade, from Old Occitan aubada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o??ba?.d?/
• Hyphenation: au?ba?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. A song or musical performance to honour someone, performed in the morning.
2. (uncommon, chiefly historical) An aubade, a morning love song.

Related terms

• albino
• album
• albumen

French

Etymology

From Old French albade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.bad/

Noun

aubade f (plural aubades)

1. aubade (song; poem)
2. aubade (love song)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: aubade
• ? English: aubade

Further reading

• “aubade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).