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What is another word for dirges?

Pronunciation: [dˈɜːd͡ʒɪz] (IPA)

Dirges, or funeral songs, are often associated with mourning and sadness. When looking for synonyms for this word, there are several options to consider. "Elegy" is a similar term that refers to a mournful poem or lament for the dead. Another related word is "requiem," which is a musical composition typically performed at funerals or memorial services. "Lament" refers to an expression of grief or sorrow, often in a form of a song or poem. Lastly, "threnody" is a more archaic term that refers specifically to a song or hymn for the dead. All of these words can convey grief and sorrow similarly to the term "dirge".
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

  • Other hypernyms:

    Lamentations, funeral laments, mourning songs.

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  • Now, through my own infirmity I recover what he was to me: my opposite. Being naturally truthful, he did not see the point of these exaggerations, and was borne on by a natural sense of the fitting, was indeed a great master of the art of living so that he seems to have lived long, and to have spread calm round him, indifference one might almost say, certainly to his own advancement, save that he had also great compassion. [...] We have no ceremonies, only private dirges and no conclusions, only violent sensations, each separate. Nothing that has been said meets our case. [...] After a long lifetime, loosely, in a moment of revelation, I may lay hands on it, but now the idea breaks in my hand. Ideas break a thousand times for once that they globe themselves entire. [...] I am yawning. I am glutted with sensations. I am exhausted with the strain and the long, long time — twenty-five minutes, half an hour — that I have held myself alone outside the machine.
    Virginia Woolf
  • I've just finished reading Shakespeare's , that is, I've read and them for the first time. One passionate, desolate lament - immeasurable and inconsolable - for the waning, wasting and passing of beauty. At the same time there's something disturbingly un-Christian here - the utterly heathen, desperate keening of the dirges, the grisly dances of death, , in which death is nothing but the , finality - destruction, not transition.
    Ida Friederike Görres
  • For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeat On fields of triumph dirges of defeat; And still we turn on gala-days to tread Among the rustling memories of the dead.
    Henry van Dyke
  • That uncountable myths and legends and ecclesiastical operas and dirges have at their core, if not in their trappings, near identical mechanisms, performances, and outcomes is proof most solid of the centrality of the panhuman subconscious—or superconscious—experience of the myriad and manifold wonders and terrors of the cosmos.
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