Meaning of DIRGE
| Pronunciation: | | durj
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| | Definition: | | [n] a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person |
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| | Synonyms: | | coronach, lament, requiem, threnody |
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| | See Also: | | keen, song | |
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| | Definition: | | Dirge
When a human colony and its inhabitants are unceremoniously decimated by a hostile alien race, the uneasy alliance between humans and their primary ally in interstellar space, the thranx, is tested, even as together they try to defeat a common enemy, the dread pitar. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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