noun the retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.
2. antistrophe ·noun the repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.
3. antistrophe ·noun in greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. hence: the lines of this part of the choral song.