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.
Derivatives:
rhapsodic adj. rhapsodical adj. (in senses 1, 2).
Etymology: L rhapsodia f. Gk rhapsoidia (as RHAPSODE)