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ELEGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elegy mean? 

ELEGY (noun)
  The noun ELEGY has 1 sense:

1. a mournful poem; a lament for the deadplay

  Familiarity information: ELEGY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ELEGY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A mournful poem; a lament for the dead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

elegy; lament

Hypernyms ("elegy" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Derivation:

elegist (the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead)

elegize (compose an elegy)


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