לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

dirge

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

In a sentence

Three example sentences with dirge, each labelled with its topic.

  • The choir closed with a slow dirge for the village's oldest fisherman, one candle burning at the front of the church.

    Music

  • Naval crews sang the same dirge over the rail for two centuries, and the melody appears in three ships' logbooks.

    History

  • The poem is a dirge in everything but name, mourning a friend across nine stanzas that never raise their voice.

    Literature

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