DIRGE
What does "DIRGE" mean?
A slow, mournful song or piece of music, especially one for a funeral or the dead.
Meanings
- A lament for the dead, sung or played as part of mourning. The pipers led the coffin out to a slow, aching dirge.
- Any piece that is slow, gloomy, and tediously solemn. The whole second album was a dirge - not one track over a crawl. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Dirge' is a single surviving Latin word: it comes from 'dirige' ('direct'), the first word of a funeral antiphon - 'Dirige, Domine...' - in the medieval Office of the Dead.
Word origin
From Latin 'dirige', the first word of a Latin funeral antiphon ('Dirige, Domine...', meaning 'Direct, O Lord'), used in the medieval Office of the Dead.
Remember it
A DIRGE comes from Latin 'dirige' - the opening word of an old funeral chant.
A little poem
The low notes walk the way the mourners walked,
each phrase a step that cannot be retracted-
and grief, for once, is given time to talk.
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What it teaches
Grief needs a tempo of its own; some sorrows can only be carried slowly, in time.
Quick facts
What does DIRGE mean?
A slow, mournful song or piece of music, especially one for a funeral or the dead.
Is DIRGE a valid word?
Yes — DIRGE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DIRGE?
DIRGE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does DIRGE come from?
From Latin 'dirige', the first word of a Latin funeral antiphon ('Dirige, Domine...', meaning 'Direct, O Lord'), used in the medieval Office of the Dead.
What can DIRGE teach us?
Grief needs a tempo of its own; some sorrows can only be carried slowly, in time.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.