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A song, poem, or musical expression of lament for the dead.
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Formal lament, poetic mourning, communal remembrance.Name an artistic act of grief when the form matters.
Words that belong together
- sing a threnody
- threnody for the dead
- mournful threnody
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Her threnody named each sailor who had failed to return.
At dusk, the sisters sang a threnody in the ruined choir.
He wrote three threnodies before he could write an ordinary letter.
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Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Uncommon, literary term; more specific to lamentation than any melancholy composition. Plural threnodies.
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