rhapsody -
n. (pl. -ies)
1 an enthusiastic or extravagant utterance or composition.
2 Mus. a piece of music in one extended movement, usu. emotional in character.
3 Gk Antiq.
an epic poem, or part of
it, of a length for one recitation.
rhapsodic adj. rhapsodical adj. (in senses 1, 2). [L rhapsodia f. Gk rhapsoidia (as RHAPSODE)]
