| Pronunciation: | | 'elijee
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| Matching Terms: | | elegance, elegant, elegant brodiaea, elegant cat's ears, elegant habenaria, elegantly, elegiac, elegiac stanza, elegiacal, elegiast, elegiographer, elegise, elegist, elegit, elegize
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| | Definition: | | [n] a mournful poem; a lament for the dead |
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| | Synonyms: | | lament |
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| | See Also: | | poem, verse form |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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