Definitions for coronachs

coronachs cor·o·nach

Spelling: [kawr-uh-nuh kh, kor
IPA: /ˈkɔr ə nəx, ˈkɒr-/

Coronachs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 313 anagrams from letters in coronachs (acchnoors).

Definitions for coronachs

noun

  1. (in Scotland and Ireland) a song or lamentation for the dead; dirge.

Origin of coronachs

1490-1500; Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge

Examples for coronachs

When Father Brindle had concluded, the pipers, accompanied by muffled drums, played the coronach as a lament.

After every fight will not some mother be crooning the coronach for her dear son?

But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach or wail the death-wail over them.

The most primitive was called epikedeion, a dirge or coronach, improvised by women over the bodies of the dead.

There shall never be coronach cried, or dirge played, for thee or thy bloody wolf-burd.

In every house there would be a crying of the death wail—the coronach of sorrow.

And now comes the ghostly music of the coronach: they are burying the dead.

"In the grasses and the bracken," said Gilian, singing it to himself as if it were a coronach.

But when they fell there was none to sing their coronach 16 or wail the death-wail over them.

Some old soldier, probably, playing a gathering or a coronach.

Word Value for coronachs
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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