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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.

Elegy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elegy?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elegy: lament

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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