Usually means: Mournful song for the deceased.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dirge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dirge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dirge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dirge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dirge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dirge, dirge: Wordnik
  7. dirge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dirge: Wiktionary
  9. dirge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dirge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dirge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dirge, dirge: Dictionary.com
  13. dirge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dirge (Bob Dylan song), Dirge (album), Dirge (band), Dirge (novel), Dirge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dirge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dirge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dirge: Rhymezone
  18. Dirge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dirge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dirge: Free Dictionary
  21. dirge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dirge: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DIRGE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dirge: Legal dictionary

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  1. dirge: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dirge: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. dirge: A Word A Day
  3. dirge: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dirge: The Folk File
  2. Dirge: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dirgelike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
noun:  (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
verb:  To sing dirges

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