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Definitions for Elegy

[1] a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
[2] a poem written in elegiac meter.
[3] a sad or mournful musical composition.
[4] a mournful or plaintive poem or song, esp a lament for the dead
[5] poetry or a poem written in elegiac couplets or stanzas

Words related to Elegy

threnody, knell, requiem, lament, plaint

Words nearby Elegy

elegiac pentameter, elegiac stanza, elegist, elegit, elegize, elegy, elegy written in a country churchyard, eleia, eleidin, elektra, elektrostal

Origin of Elegy

1505–15; (< Middle French ) < Latin elegīa < Greek elegeía, orig. neuter plural of elegeîos elegiac, equivalent to éleg(os ) a lament + -eios adj. suffix

Words that may be confused with Elegy

elegy, eulogy

Word origin for Elegy

C16: via French and Latin from Greek elegeia, from elegos lament sung to flute accompaniment

Synonyms for Elegy

knell, lament, plaint, requiem, threnody, death song, funeral song