threnody

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
    — The fifer actually knew but one tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—and did not know that well. But it was all that he had, and he played it with wearisome monotony for every camp call. . . . I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason.

词形变化

threnodies plural threnedy alternative,rare

词源

From Ancient Greek θρηνῳδία (thrēnōidía, “lamentation”). Compare the New Latin thrēnōdia.
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