elegy
51elegy — el|e|gy [ elədʒi ] noun count a poem or other piece of writing expressing sadness, usually about someone s death …
52elegy — [16] Greek élegos originally signified simply ‘song’ (Aristophanes, for example, used it for the song of a nightingale in his play Birds). It is not clear where it came from, although it has been speculated that the Greeks may have borrowed it… …
53elegy — , eulogy The first is a mournful poem; the second is a tribute to the dead …
54elegy — el·e·gy || elɪdʒɪ n. lament, dirge, mournful poem …
55elegy — [ ɛlɪdʒi] noun (plural elegies) 1》 a mournful poem, typically a lament for the dead. 2》 (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets. Origin C16: from Fr. élégie, or via L., from Gk elegeia, from elegos mournful poem …
56elegy — n. 1. Dirge, lament, epicedium, mournful song, funeral song. 2. Serious, meditative, or melancholy poem …
57elegy — n dirge, threnody, (in Scotland and Ireland) coronach, requiem, monody; song of lamentation, lament, plaint, keen, Kaddish …
58elegy — el·e·gy …
59elegy — [ˈelədʒi] noun [C] a poem or other piece of writing that expresses sadness …
60elegy — el•e•gy [[t]ˈɛl ɪ dʒi[/t]] n. pl. gies 1) pro a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a lament for the dead 2) pro a poem written in elegiac meter 3) mad a mournful musical composition • Etymology: 1505–15; (< MF) < L elegīa < Gk …