Elegy \El"e*gy\, n.; pl. Elegies. [L. elegia, Gr. ?, fem.
sing. (cf. ?, prop., neut. pl. of ? a distich in elegiac
verse), fr. ? elegiac, fr. ? a song of mourning.]
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of
lamentation. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
elegy
n : a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: lament]
WordNet (r) 2.0
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "elegy":
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew,
coronach, dead march, death knell, death song, dirge, dithyramb,
eclogue, epic, epicedium, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee,
epopoeia, epos, eulogy, funeral march, funeral oration,
funeral song, georgic, ghazel, graveside oration, haiku, idyll,
jingle, keen, knell, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody,
muffled drums, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode,
passing bell, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle,
poem, prothalamium, requiem, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel,
roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence,
tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnode, threnody, triolet,
troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of
the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind
the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins
somewhat like this:
The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
The wise man homeward plods; I only stay
To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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