threnody

Noun

Meaning

A song of lamentation; a threnode.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

requiem song elegy lamentation poem keen mourning cry ballad chant eulogy lament coronach knell dirge
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Antonyms

revel pleasure celebration prose happiness satisfaction
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Hypernyms

song

Hyponyms

keen

Examples

Cheever, 93 Emerson wrote of his grief in the poem " Threnody " ("For this losing is true dying"), McAleer, 313 and the essay "Experience". Source: Internet

The experimental textures, such as were seen in the Threnody, are balanced by the work's Baroque form and the occasional use of more traditional harmonic and melodic writing. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

threnodic threnodical threnodist threnos threo- threofuranose