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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirge |
| Synonyms: | death song, funeral song, knell, lament, plaint, requiem, threnody |
| Main Entry: | epitaph |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inscription on a gravestone |
| Synonyms: | commemoration, elegy, epigraph, eulogy, hic jacet, legend, memorial, monument, remembrance, requiescat in pace, sentiment |
| Notes: | an epitaph is an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there, while an epithet is a defamatory or abusive word or phrase |
| 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: | requiem |
| 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: | threnody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | song |
| Synonyms: | dirge, elegy, poem, requiem |
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