| 单词 | dirge |
| 释义 | dirge /derrj/, n. 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. Eccles. the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung. [1175-1225; ME dir(i)ge < L: DIRECT, syncopated var. of DIRIGE (impv. of dirigere), first word of the antiphon sung in the Latin office of the dead (Psalm V, 8)] |
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