ELEGY meaning: Mournful poem lamenting someone's death

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word elegy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

elegy: Merriam-Webster
elegy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
elegy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
elegy: Collins English Dictionary
elegy: Vocabulary.com
Elegy, elegy: Wordnik
elegy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
elegy: Wiktionary
elegy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
elegy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
elegy: Infoplease Dictionary
elegy: Dictionary.com
elegy: Online Etymology Dictionary
elegy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Elegy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
elegy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
elegy: Rhymezone
Elegy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
elegy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
elegy: FreeDictionary.org
elegy: Mnemonic Dictionary
elegy: TheFreeDictionary.com
elegy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
ELEGY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

elegy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

elegy: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
▸ noun:  (music) A composition of mournful character.
▸ noun:  A classical poem written in elegiac meter

Similar:

lament, monody, elegist, lamentation, eulogy, elogy, epicede, plain, trental, eloge, more...

Opposite:

ode, epic, epigram, epic poem

Types:

pastoral elegy, heroic elegy, meditative elegy, funeral elegy, satirical elegy, personal elegy, political elegy, philosophical elegy, more...

Phrases:

pastoral elegy, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Hillbilly Elegy, Elegy for Kosovo, Monuments to an Elegy, more...

Adjectives:

pastoral, latin, first, famous, roman, beautiful, long, funeral, erotic, second, greek

Colors:

midnight blue, deep violet, muted lavender, dusky rose, slate gray, more...