'Elegy' definitions:
Definition of 'elegy'
(from WordNet)
noun
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: elegy, lament]
Definition of 'Elegy'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'elegy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bucolic,
- canso,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- coronach,
- dead march,
- death knell,
- death song,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- eclogue,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epicedium,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- eulogy,
- funeral march,
- funeral oration,
- funeral song,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- graveside oration,
- haiku,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- keen,
- knell,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- monody,
- muffled drums,
- narrative poem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- passing bell,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- requiem,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnode,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay