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Definition of Dirge
1. Noun. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
Specialized synonyms: Keen
Generic synonyms: Song, Vocal
Derivative terms: Lament
Definition of Dirge
1. n. A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
Definition of Dirge
1. Noun. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dirge
1. a funeral song [n -S] : DIRGEFUL [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirge
Literary usage of Dirge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Robert Herrick: A Biographical & Critical Study by Frederic William Moorman (1910)
"But the dirge is so audacious in conception, and so heroic in spirit, that I
cannot refrain from reproducing it here in the metre of Morris's Sigurd. ..."
2. The Modern Reader's Bible: The Books of the Bible with Three Books of the by Richard Green Moulton (1907)
"The dirge rises: thoughts of former splendour and sin enhancing the misery 7 <5
Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all ..."
3. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"dirge FOR THE YEAR.i I. ORPHAN hours, the year is dead, Come and sigh, come and
weep ! Merry hours, smile instead, For the year is but asleep. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"107 A SEA dirge FULL fathom five thy father lies: Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, ..."
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