Rhapsody
(noun)
- A piece of music that is highly emotional and expressively free in form.
- A speech or writing that expresses great enthusiasm or excitement.
Origin:
From the greek word rhapsoidia, meaning "a piece of extemporaneous poetry or a recital of such poetry", which is derived from the word rhaptein, meaning "to stitch" or "to weave" and the word aoidos, meaning "singer" or "poet".
Examples:
- Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is a beautiful rhapsody.
- The singer's rhapsody about love was moving.
- The novelist's rhapsody about the sea was evocative.
- The rhapsody in the poem was about the joys of life.
- The rhapsody of the speech was about the future of the country.