About The Word Elegy

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Elegy

Elegy Meaning & Definition
Elegy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elegy?

[n] a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elegy: lament

Related Terms | Find terms related to Elegy: alba | anacreontic | balada | ballad | ballade | bucolic | canso | chanson | clerihew | coronach | dead march | death knell | death song | dirge | dithyramb | eclogue | English sonnet | epic | epicedium | epigram | epithalamium | epode | epopee | epopoeia | epos | eulogy | funeral march | funeral oration | funeral song | georgic | ghazel | graveside oration | haiku | Horatian ode | idyll | Italian sonnet | jingle | keen | knell | limerick | lyric | madrigal | monody | muffled drums | narrative poem | nursery rhyme | ode | palinode | passing bell | pastoral | pastoral elegy | pastorela | pastourelle | Petrarchan sonnet | Pindaric ode | poem | prothalamium | requiem | rhyme | rondeau | rondel | roundel | roundelay | Sapphic ode | satire | sestina | Shakespearean sonnet | sloka | song | sonnet | sonnet sequence | tanka | tenso | tenzone | threnode | threnody | triolet | troubadour poem | verse | verselet | versicle | villanelle | virelay

See Also | poem | verse form

Elegy In Webster's Dictionary

\El"e*gy\, n.; pl. {Elegies}. [L. elegia, Gr. ?, fem. sing. (cf. ?, prop., neut. pl. of ? a distich in elegiac verse), fr. ? elegiac, fr. ? a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. --Shak.

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