The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ode \Ode\ ([=o]d), n. [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. 'w,dh` a song,
   especially a lyric song, contr. fr. 'aoidh`, fr. 'aei`dein to
   sing; cf. Skr. vad to speak, sing. Cf. Comedy, Melody,
   Monody.]
   A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or
   sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by
   sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
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         Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.
                                                  --Shak.
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         O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
         And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.    --Milton.
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   Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; --
      used contemptuously.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ode
    n 1: a lyric poem with complex stanza forms

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "ode":
   English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
   Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
   balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge,
   dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode,
   epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle,
   limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme,
   palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem,
   prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire,
   sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso,
   tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet,
   versicle, villanelle, virelay



V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

ODE
       Object Database and Environment (AT&T, DB)


V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

ODE
       Online Data Entry


V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

ODE
       Open Dynamics Engine


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Ode

   An Object-Oriented Database from AT&T which extends C++
   and supports fast queries, complex application modelling and
   multimedia.

   Ode uses one integrated data model (C++ classes) for both
   database and general purpose manipulation.  An Ode database is
   a collection of persistent objects.  It is defined,
   queried and manipulated using the language O++.  O++
   programs can be compiled with C++ programs, thus allowing the
   use of existing C++ code.  O++ provides facilities for
   specifying transactions, creating and manipulating persistent
   objects, querying the database and creating and manipulating
   versions.

   The Ode object database provides four object compatible
   mechanisms for manipulating and querying the database.  As
   well as O++ there are OdeView - an X Window System
   interface; OdeFS (a file system interface allowing objects to
   be treated and manipulated like normal Unix files); and CQL++,
   a C++ variant of SQL for easing the transition from
   relational databases to OODBs such as Ode.

   Ode supports large objects (critical for multimedia
   applications).  Ode tracks the relationship between versions
   of objects and provides facilities for accessing different
   versions.  Transactions can be specified as read-only; such
   transactions are faster because they are not logged and they
   are less likely to deadlock.  'Hypothetical' transactions
   allow users to pose "what-if" scenarios (as with
   spreadsheets).

   EOS, the storage engine of Ode, is based on a client-server
   architecture.  EOS supports concurrency based on
   multi-granularity two-version two-phase locking; it allows
   many readers and one writer to access the same item
   simultaneously.  Standard two-phase locking is also available.
   Ode supports both a client-server mode for multiple users
   with concurrent access and a single user mode giving improved
   performance.

   Ode 3.0 is currently being used as the multimedia database
   engine for AT&T's Interactive TV project.  Ode 2.0 has
   also been distributed to more than 80 sites within AT&T and
   more than 340 universities.  Ode is available free to
   universities under a non-disclosure agreement.  The current
   version, 3.0, is available only for Sun SPARCstations
   running SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.3.  Ode is being ported
   to Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95 and SGI
   platforms.

   E-mail: Narain Gehani .

   (1994-08-18)