Canadian English Meaning of dirge

dirge

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Definitions and Meaning of dirge in English

Wordnet

dirge (n)

a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

Webster

dirge (a.)

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

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dirge

a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead personA piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral h

elegy,lament,Requiem,threnody,elegiac,Monody,taps

eulogy,paean,panegyric,Encomium

direptitiously => surreptitiously, direptitious => sinister, direption => looting, direness => urgency, diremption => rescission,