'Dirge' definitions:
Definition of 'dirge'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Dirge'
From: GCIDE
- Dirge \Dirge\, n. [Contraction of Lat. dirige, direct thou (imperative of dirigere), the first word of a funeral hymn (Lat. transl. of Psalm v. 8) beginning, "Dirige, Domine, in conspectu tuo vitam meam." See Direct, a., and cf. Dirige.] A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. [1913 Webster]
- The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dirge'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- anthem,
- art song,
- aubade,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- ballata,
- barcarole,
- bemoan,
- bewail,
- blues,
- blues song,
- boat song,
- Brautlied,
- bridal hymn,
- brindisi,
- bucolic,
- burial service,
- calypso,
- canso,
- canticle,
- canzone,
- canzonet,
- canzonetta,
- carol,
- cavatina,
- chanson,
- chant,
- chantey,
- Christmas carol,
- clerihew,
- coronach,
- croon,
- croon song,
- dead march,
- death knell,
- death song,
- deathwatch,
- deplore,
- dithyramb,
- ditty,
- drinking song,
- Dry Mass,
- eclogue,
- elegize,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epicedium,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- Eucharistic rites,
- eulogy,
- exequies,
- extreme unction,
- folk song,
- funeral march,
- funeral oration,
- funeral rites,
- funeral song,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- give sorrow words,
- graveside oration,
- grieve,
- haiku,
- Horatian ode,
- hymeneal,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- keen,
- knell,
- Kunstlied,
- Lady Mass,
- lament,
- last duty,
- last honors,
- last offices,
- last rites,
- lay,
- Liebeslied,
- lied,
- lilt,
- limerick,
- love song,
- love-lilt,
- Low Mass,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- Mass,
- matin,
- minstrel song,
- minstrelsy,
- Missa,
- Missa bassa,
- Missa cantata,
- Missa legata,
- Missa media,
- Missa praesanctificatorum,
- Missa privata,
- Missa publica,
- Missa sicca,
- moan,
- monody,
- mourn,
- muffled drums,
- narrative poem,
- national anthem,
- nursery rhyme,
- obsequies,
- ode,
- palinode,
- passing bell,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- repine,
- requiem,
- Requiem Mass,
- requiem mass,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- Rosary,
- Rosary Mass,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- serena,
- serenade,
- serenata,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sigh,
- sing the blues,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- sorrow,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- the Divine Liturgy,
- the Liturgy,
- theme song,
- threnode,
- threnody,
- torch song,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- viaticum,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- Volkslied,
- wake,
- war song,
- wedding song,
- weep over