Meaning ofdirge in English
dirge
noun[C ]
usYour browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
Synonym
lamentformal
- His long improvised dirges will ring for ever in my ears.
- No long line of troops, no sound of dirges, no trappings of woe, marked the funeral of General Hancock.
- Soul-stirring dirges added to the solemn horror of the scene.
- The dirges are supremely beautiful, their language simple and direct, but perfect in descriptive touches and in the cadence of the reiterated burden.
- Wailing an endless dirge, the dismal notes prolong.
Examplesofdirge
dirge
This signaled the beginning of its long, politically-chargeddirge.
FromThe Atlantic
During half-hour performances, visitors enter the towers, activating the dirges, songs, and weeping of the professionals within.
FromThe New Yorker
Why yes, that is the sound of the world's smallest violin playing adirge.
FromThe Atlantic
He meant to sing adirge performed at funerals.
FromPolitico
A return to thedirge-like texture occurs with a final cadential structure built on the major-minor synthesis.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Inequality of income marks the birth of civilization, and if civilization ever dies "equality of income" should be the title of itsdirge.
The dirges lifted him to immensity from which the abysses of the world spread themselves below.
The wild chant--halfdirge, half frenzy--that they raised was suited to that waste which they were leaving.
The wail of the storm seemed adirge to pent thoughts.
A small boy swings the smoking censer, and the singers undertake a melancholydirge.
Perceiving a strange relapse of opposition in me, wife and daughters began a soft anddirge-like, melancholy tolling over it.
The tolling of the bell and thedirge by the band absorbed all my attention.
Adirge commemorating this event, composed by a son of one of the martyrs, contains a heartrending description of the tragedy.
What human soul has not sung thatdirge?
It was theirdirge over their buried affections and over the vanity of earthly desires.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Translations ofdirge
{{#randomImageQuizHook.filename}} {{#randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{^randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.isQuiz}} {{/randomImageQuizHook.filename}}
Word of the Day
cabbage that has been cut into small pieces and preserved in salt
About this
To top
Contents