Dirge

Word DIRGE
Character 5
Hyphenation dirge
Pronunciations /dɜːdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Dirge"

What do we mean by dirge?

A funeral hymn or lament. noun

A slow, mournful musical composition. noun

A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work. noun

The Office of the Dead. noun

A funeral hymn; the funeral service as sung; hence, a song or tune expressing grief, lamentation, and mourning. noun

Synonyms Dirge, Requiem, Elegy, lament, threnody, coronach. The first three are primarily and almost uniformly suggested by the death of some person. A dirge or a requiem may be only music or may be a song. An elegy is a poem, which may or may not be sung. A requiem, being originally sung for the repose of the soul of a deceased person, retains a corresponding character when the music does not accompany words. noun

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. noun

A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. noun

A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person noun

A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Dirge

The word "dirge" in example sentences

It is from the latter of these two words that the English term dirge is derived. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The dirge is a lament for Aung San Suu Kii, the deposed leader of Burma who has been held under house arrest in her home in Rangoon for 17 years. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From time to time he uttered soft regular sounds; he was wailing a dirge, that is, swaying backwards and forwards with his eyes shut, and shaking his head as drivers or bargemen do when they chant their melancholy songs. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The songs in "Deirdre," especially the last dirge, which is supposed to be the creation of the moment, must upon the other hand, at any rate when Miss Farr's or Miss Allgood's music is used, be sung or spoken with minute passionate understanding. ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)

Rightly so, Lewd Acts front-load this album with a few more like this before throwing its first genuine sonic curveball, a slow spoken word dirge called "Who Knew The West Coast Could Be So Cold?". ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sense I get is of Iraq as an undertone, a kind of dirge playing softly beneath the pop charts. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A "dirge" is a funeral or mourning song, so perhaps this is meant literally ... or, perhaps, this is a reference to some of the new ❋ Unknown (1965)

The muleteer, with head wrapped up in a shawl, intoned a kind of dirge, pausing sometimes to ask Allah to improve his plight. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)

She would sit for hours singing or rather mourning out a kind of dirge over herself: ❋ Mary H. Kingsley (1881)

Their voices, too, are heard as a fugacious part in the dirge which is ever played along the shore for those mariners who have been lost in the deep since first it was created. ❋ Unknown (1865)

Lizzie, having smothered her head with fluffy feathers from some cockatoos that had been roasted for supper, employed herself in chanting a most weird kind of dirge over the body, to which she beat a species of accompaniment on the bottom of a pint pot; while Ferdinand, by Dunmore's directions, had set to work to strip a sheet of bark off a tea-tree, to act as a rude coffin. ❋ Charles Henry Eden (1858)

If I could write 'dirge' that good, then I'd be a very happy man. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the same moment the great doors of the temple were thrown open, and the priests, to the number of about one hundred and fifty, clad in white robes and turbans edged with turquoise blue, filed out through the portals of the building, walking with slow and measured steps, and playing a kind of dirge upon their queer-looking musical instruments, of which the most numerous consisted of long curved trumpets formed of a kind of terra-cotta. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

"dirge" has passed into the English language, and is derived from the latter. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

She would sit for hours singing or rather mourning out a kind of dirge over herself: “Yesterday I was a woman, now I am a horror, a thing all people run from. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She would sit for hours singing or rather mourning out a kind of dirge over herself: "Yesterday ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)

English word "dirge"), from the antiphons with which the Vespers and the Matins respectively began. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A million-seller and Grammy winner, it's now entrenched in the culture, the sort of dirge that some terminally lovesick folks request for their funeral. ❋ Eddie Dean (2011)

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