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| Main Entry: |
requiem
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hymn, mass |
| Synonyms: | canticle, ceremony, chant, death song, dirge, elegy, eulogy, funeral hymn, liturgy, memorial service, monody, psalm, religious song, ritual, sermon, threnody, worship |
| Main Entry: | elegy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirge |
| Synonyms: | death song, funeral song, knell, lament, plaint, requiem, threnody |
| Main Entry: | funeral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ceremony for the dead |
| Synonyms: | burial, cremation, entombment, exequies, funeration, inhumation, interment, last rites, obit, obsequies, planting, requiem, sepulture, services, solemnities |
| Antonyms: | baptism, christening |
| Main Entry: | lament/lamentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grief, complaint |
| Synonyms: | complaining, dirge, elegy, grieving, jeremiad, keen, keening, lament, moan, moaning, mourning, plaint, requiem, sob, sobbing, sorrow, tears, threnody, ululation, wail, wailing, weeping |
| Antonyms: | celebration, enjoyment, praise |
| Main Entry: | threnody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | song |
| Synonyms: | dirge, elegy, poem, requiem |
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