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Dirge
| Dirge Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Dirge?
[n] a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dirge: coronach |
lament |
requiem |
threnody
Related Terms | Find terms related to Dirge: alba |
anacreontic |
anthem |
art song |
aubade |
balada |
ballad |
ballade |
ballata |
barcarole |
bemoan |
bewail |
blues |
blues song |
boat song |
Brautlied |
bridal hymn |
brindisi |
bucolic |
burial service |
calypso |
canso |
canticle |
canzone |
canzonet |
canzonetta |
carol |
cavatina |
chanson |
chant |
chantey |
Christmas carol |
clerihew |
coronach |
croon |
croon song |
dead march |
death knell |
death song |
deathwatch |
deplore |
dithyramb |
ditty |
drinking song |
Dry Mass |
eclogue |
elegize |
elegy |
English sonnet |
epic |
epicedium |
epigram |
epithalamium |
epode |
epopee |
epopoeia |
epos |
Eucharistic rites |
eulogy |
exequies |
extreme unction |
folk song |
funeral march |
funeral oration |
funeral rites |
funeral song |
georgic |
ghazel |
give sorrow words |
graveside oration |
grieve |
haiku |
Horatian ode |
hymeneal |
idyll |
Italian sonnet |
jingle |
keen |
knell |
Kunstlied |
Lady Mass |
lament |
last duty |
last honors |
last offices |
last rites |
lay |
Liebeslied |
lied |
lilt |
limerick |
love song |
love-lilt |
Low Mass |
lyric |
madrigal |
Mass |
matin |
minstrel song |
minstrelsy |
Missa |
Missa bassa |
Missa cantata |
Missa legata |
Missa media |
Missa praesanctificatorum |
Missa privata |
Missa publica |
Missa sicca |
moan |
monody |
mourn |
muffled drums |
narrative poem |
national anthem |
nursery rhyme |
obsequies |
ode |
palinode |
passing bell |
pastoral |
pastoral elegy |
pastorela |
pastourelle |
Petrarchan sonnet |
Pindaric ode |
poem |
prothalamium |
repine |
requiem |
Requiem Mass |
rhyme |
rondeau |
rondel |
Rosary |
Rosary Mass |
roundel |
roundelay |
Sapphic ode |
satire |
serena |
serenade |
serenata |
sestina |
Shakespearean sonnet |
sigh |
sing the blues |
sloka |
song |
sonnet |
sonnet sequence |
sorrow |
tanka |
tenso |
tenzone |
the Divine Liturgy |
the Liturgy |
theme song |
threnode |
threnody |
torch song |
triolet |
troubadour poem |
verse |
verselet |
versicle |
viaticum |
villanelle |
virelay |
Volkslied |
wake |
war song |
wedding song |
weep over
See Also | keen |
song
Dirge In Webster's Dictionary
\Dirge\, n. [Contraction of Lat. dirige, direct thou
(imperative of dirigere), the first word of a funeral hymn
(Lat. transl. of Psalm v. 8) beginning, ``Dirige, Domine, in
conspectu tuo vitam meam.'' See {Direct}, a., and cf.
{Dirige}.]
A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany
funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung
dirges at her funeral. --Ford.
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