Dirge

Quick meaning: Dirge is a noun meaning A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
2. To sing dirges

Example Sentences

It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.

Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.

While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step. This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!”

Therefore our ſometimes Siſter, now our Queen, / Th’ imperiall Ioyntreſſe of this warlike State, / Haue we, as ’twere, with a defeated ioy, / With one Auſpicious, and one Dropping eye, / With mirth in Funerall, and with Dirge in Marriage, / In equall Scale weighing Delight and Dole / Taken to Wife […]

Word Forms

• dirges
• dirging
• dirged

Synonyms for dirge

Depending on context, synonyms include lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy, trental.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include threnody, coronach, lament, requiem, elegy, threnode.

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