Elegy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elegy
       n : a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: {lament}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ELEGY, n.  A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of
  the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind
  the dampest kind of dejection.  The most famous English example begins
  somewhat like this:
  
      The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
          The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
      The wise man homeward plods; I only stay
          To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.