Usually means: Expressive, emotional composition or work.
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  1. rhapsody: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rhapsody: Merriam-Webster
  3. rhapsody: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rhapsody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rhapsody: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rhapsody: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rhapsody, rhapsody: Wordnik
  8. rhapsody: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rhapsody: Wiktionary
  10. rhapsody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rhapsody: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rhapsody: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rhapsody, rhapsody: Dictionary.com
  14. rhapsody: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rhapsody: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Rhapsody: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rhapsody: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rhapsody: Rhymezone
  20. rhapsody: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rhapsody: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rhapsody: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rhapsody: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rhapsody: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. RHAPSODY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rhapsody: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rhapsody: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Rhapsody (disambiguation), rhapsody: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (Ancient Greece, poetry, historical) An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (sometimes with a negative connotation) An exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing.
noun:  (music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation.
noun:  (archaic) A random collection or medley; a miscellany; also, a confused string of stories, words, etc.
noun:  (sometimes with a negative connotation, obsolete) A literary composition consisting of miscellaneous works.
verb:  Synonym of rhapsodize
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To perform (a rhapsody (“an epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation”))
verb:  (intransitive) Followed by about, on, over, or upon: to speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.

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