ELEGY
What does "ELEGY" mean?
A poem or song of mourning, especially a lament for someone who has died.
Meanings
- A serious, reflective poem lamenting the dead or expressing sorrow. He wrote an elegy for his brother that was read at the graveside.
- A piece of music with a mournful or pensive character. The cellist closed the recital with a quiet elegy. technical
Did you know?
- In ancient Greece an 'elegy' was defined by its meter, not its mood - the elegiac couplet carried love poems and battle verse long before the word came to mean a lament for the dead.
Word origin
From Greek 'elegeia' (a lament), from 'elegos' (a mournful song, originally accompanied by the flute), via Latin 'elegia' and French 'elegie'.
Remember it
ELEGY sounds like 'a leg-y' walk behind the coffin - slow, sad, and measured.
A little poem
We do not write the dead a poem to keep them-
the page can hold no one.
We write it so the living have somewhere to put the weight.
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What it teaches
Grief set to careful words becomes bearable: form is how sorrow learns to be carried.
Quick facts
What does ELEGY mean?
A poem or song of mourning, especially a lament for someone who has died.
Is ELEGY a valid word?
Yes — ELEGY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ELEGY?
ELEGY has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does ELEGY come from?
From Greek 'elegeia' (a lament), from 'elegos' (a mournful song, originally accompanied by the flute), via Latin 'elegia' and French 'elegie'.
What can ELEGY teach us?
Grief set to careful words becomes bearable: form is how sorrow learns to be carried.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.