Word Meanings - DIRGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. Ford. (more info) of dirigere), the first word of a funeral hymn (Lat. transl. of Psalm

Additional info about word: DIRGE

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. Ford. (more info) of dirigere), the first word of a funeral hymn (Lat. transl. of Psalm v. 8) beginning, "Dirige, Domine, in conspectu tuo vitam meam." See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIRGE)

• Elegy
• Dirge
• threnody
• lament
• jeremiad

Related words: (words related to DIRGE)

• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• DIRGEFUL
  Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
• LAMENT
  To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.
• LAMENTINGLY
  In a lamenting manner.
• LAMENTIN
  See LAMANTIN
• ELEGY
  A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.
• JEREMIAD; JEREMIADE
  A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically. He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad. Lamb.
• DIRGE
  A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. Ford. (more info) of dirigere), the first word of a funeral hymn (Lat. transl. of Psalm
• LAMENTABLE
  1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.
• LAMENTER
  One who laments.
• LAMENTATION
  1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii.
• THRENODY
  A song of lamentation; a threnode. Sir T. Herbert.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• VORTEX FILAMENT
  A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.
• LOCULAMENT
  The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
• FILAMENTOID
  Like a filament.
• FILAMENTARY
  Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
• FILAMENT
  A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. , the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
• CAPILLAMENT
  A filament.