| \DITH-uh-ram, -ramb\ |
noun
1. any wildly enthusiastic speech or writing.
2. a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus. |
| Quotes |
The book is exalted, and flawed, by what is almost a madness of metaphors, Blackmur's piled on Adams's, a dithyramb about a dithyramb. It would be difficult to think of a book operating on a higher level than this one.
-- Anatole Broyard, "Cathedral of Thought," New York Times, May 10, 1980 |
| Origin |
| Dithyramb stems from the Greek word for this specific choral song, dīthýrambos. |
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