noun. A poem composed in elegiac couplets.

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noun. A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

noun. Something resembling such a poem or song.

noun. A composition that is melancholy or pensive in tone.

noun. In classical poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse.

noun. A mournful or plaintive poem; a poem or song expressive of sorrow and lamentation; a dirge; a funeral song.

noun. Any serious poem pervaded by a tone of melancholy, whether grief is actually expressed or not: as, Gray's “Elegy in a Country Churchyard.”

noun. In music, a sad or funeral composition, vocal or instrumental, whether actually commemorative or not; a dirge.

noun. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

noun. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

noun. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead