funeral elegy
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Elegy
//ˈɛlɪd͡ʒi//
Synonyms for "elegy" (88 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (44)
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More general
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescapable of
1 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 40 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐλεγεία noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Arabic
2 entries- رِثَاء noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- مَرْثِيَة noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Bulgarian
1 entries- елегия noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Catalan
1 entries- elegia noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Chinese
1 entries- 哀歌 noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 哀歌 noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- 挽歌 noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Czech
2 entries- elegie noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- žalozpěv noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Danish
3 entries- elegi noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- klagesang noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- sørgedigt noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Dutch
1 entries- klaaglied noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Esperanto
1 entries- elegio noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Finnish
3 entries- elegia noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- suruvirsi noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- valitusvirsi noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
French
1 entries- élégie noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Galician
1 entries- elexía noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
German
1 entries- Elegie noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Greek
1 entries- ελεγεία noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Hebrew
1 entries- קִנָּה noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Hungarian
1 entries- elégia noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Indonesian
1 entries- elegi noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Irish
1 entries- marbhna noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Japanese
3 entries- エレジー noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- 哀歌 noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- 悲歌 noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Korean
1 entries- 만가 noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Ladino
1 entries- endecha noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Latin
2 entries- elegī noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- elegīa noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Macedonian
1 entries- еле́гија noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Middle Irish
1 entries- marbnad noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Old English
1 entries- līclēoþ noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Polish
1 entries- elegia noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Portuguese
1 entries- elegia noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Romanian
1 entries- elegie noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Russian
1 entries- эле́гия noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- cumha noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- marbhnach noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- marbhrann noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- tuireadh noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- elegija noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- narikača noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- tužbalica noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- žalopojka noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Spanish
4 entries- elegía noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- endecha noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- epicedio noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- epiceyo noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Swedish
1 entries- elegi noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Tagalog
1 entries- elehiya noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Tibetan
3 entries- གདུང་དབྱངས noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- སྐྱོ་གླུ noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- སྨྲེ་ངག noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Turkish
3 entries- ağıt noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- mersiye noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
- sagu noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Welsh
1 entries- marwnad noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Yiddish
1 entries- עלעגיע noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Zazaki
1 entries- hewal noun (mournful or plaintive poem or song)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
pastoral elegy
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solemn elegy
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He composed an elegy for his late friend.
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