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elegy

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɛlɪd͡ʒi/

Definition of elegy

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
    “funeral elegy”
    “pastoral elegy”
    “solemn elegy”
    “He composed an elegy for his late friend.”
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noun

  1. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
    “funeral elegy”
    “pastoral elegy”
    “solemn elegy”
    “He composed an elegy for his late friend.”
  2. A composition of mournful character.
  3. A classical poem written in elegiac meter

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā), ellipsis of ἐλεγείᾱ ᾠδή (elegeíā ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”).

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