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Definitions for Dirge

[1] a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
[2] 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.
[3] a mournful sound resembling a dirge: The autumn wind sang the dirge of summer.
[4] Ecclesiastical . the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung.
[5] a chant of lamentation for the dead
[6] the funeral service in its solemn or sung forms
[7] any mourning song or melody

Words related to Dirge

hymn, elegy, cry, march, requiem, chant, lament, threnody, jeremiad, keen, coronach, monody

Words nearby Dirge

directrix, diredawa, direful, diremption, direxit, dirge, dirham, dirhem, dirhinous, dirichlet, dirigible

Origin of Dirge

1175–1225; Middle English dir(i)ge < Latin: direct, syncopated variant of dīrige (imperative of dīrigere ), first word of the antiphon sung in the Latin office of the dead (Psalm V, 8)

Word origin for Dirge

C13: changed from Latin dīrigē direct (imperative), opening word of the Latin antiphon used in the office of the dead

Synonyms for Dirge

elegy, hymn, chant, coronach, cry, jeremiad, keen, lament, march, monody, requiem, threnody, death march, death song, funeral song