elegy

3 definitions found

elegy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

elegy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  elegy
      n 1: a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: elegy,
           lament]

elegy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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