Definitions for dirge

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Spelling: [durj]

IPA: /dɜrdʒ/

Dirge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in dirge (degir).

Definitions for dirge

noun

1. a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
2. any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music:
3. a mournful sound resembling a dirge:
4. Ecclesiastical. the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung.

Origin of dirge

1175-1225; Middle English dir(i)ge Latin: direct, syncopated variant of dīrige (imperative of dīrigere), first word of the antiphon sung in the Latin office of the

Examples for dirge

The design team sent out a dirge of mostly camel-colored leggings, leather shorts, tunics, and jackets.

For us it may be a pæan or it may be a dirge, and only the gods know which!

It was a dirge, which he was intoning as he bent over the cookstove.

The 19th century, though, was a 100-year dirge from one horrid epidemic to another.

"Neither did he," he observed, and began to whistle what sounded like a dirge.

But it was only the cold wind from the mountains whistling a dirge.

It was the dirge of the British Empire in America, “The World Turned Upside Down.”

But my dread of that dirge kept me from accepting these invitations.

Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.

The entrance to the room where the Bella figlia had been succeeded by a dirge, was blocked.