Usually means: Mournful poem lamenting someone's death.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. elegy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elegy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elegy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elegy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elegy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elegy, elegy: Wordnik
  7. elegy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elegy: Wiktionary
  9. elegy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elegy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elegy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. elegy: Dictionary.com
  13. elegy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. elegy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Elegy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. elegy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. elegy: Rhymezone
  19. Elegy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. elegy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. elegy: Free Dictionary
  22. elegy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. elegy: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. elegy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  3. ELEGY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elegy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elegy: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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


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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, Red Colored Elegy, Osaka Elegy, elegy for jfk, recites an elegy, more...

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



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