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Dirge

Dirge Meaning & Definition
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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