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dirge
[ durj ]
noun
- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music:
Tennyson's dirge for the Duke of Wellington.
- a mournful sound resembling a dirge:
The autumn wind sang the dirge of summer.
- Ecclesiastical. the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung.
dirge
/ »åɜ˻åÏô /
noun
- a chant of lamentation for the dead
- the funeral service in its solemn or sung forms
- any mourning song or melody
Derived Forms
- ˈ»å¾±°ù²µ±ð´Ú³Ü±ô, adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dirge1
Example Sentences
The tone is relentless, and the score of slow and craggy strings is a dirge.
Al-Hijazi joined her relatives in the square, beating her chest to the rhythm of a funereal dirge, tears streaming down her cheek.
The score sustains single notes like a dirge as Leigh judiciously chooses which noises he’ll let barge into Pansy’s sterile life.
A psychedelic dirge but also a love song, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida†captured a 1960s spirit of yin-yang duality — much like the band’s name itself.
But after he warns, “Don’t tell no lie about me/And I won’t tell truths about you,†the track changes to a tolling, droning trap dirge and Lamar’s delivery becomes biting, nasal and percussive.
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