Usually means: Repetition of words in reverse.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word antistrophe:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. antistrophe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. antistrophe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antistrophe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antistrophe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antistrophe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antistrophe, antistrophe: Wordnik
  7. antistrophe: Wiktionary
  8. antistrophe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. antistrophe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. antistrophe: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Antistrophe, antistrophe: Dictionary.com
  12. Antistrophe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Antistrophe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. antistrophe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. antistrophe: Rhymezone
  16. Antistrophe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. antistrophe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. antistrophe: Free Dictionary
  19. antistrophe: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. antistrophe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. antistrophe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. antistrophe: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. ANTISTROPHE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antistrophe: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Antistrophe: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antistrophe)

noun:  In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
noun:  The lines of this part of the choral song.
noun:  (rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.
noun:  (rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
noun:  the retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

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