Definitions for Requiem

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Requiem Req·ui·em

Spelling: [rek-wee-uh m, ree-kwee-, rey-]

IPA: /ˈrɛk wi əm, ˈri kwi-, ˈreɪ-/

Requiem is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in Requiem (eeimqru).

Definitions for Requiem

noun

1. Roman Catholic Church. Also called Requiem Mass. the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead. a celebration of this Mass. a plainsong setting for this Mass.
2. any musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead.

Origin of Requiem

1275-1325; Middle English Latin, accusative of requiēs rest (the first word of the introit of the mass for the dead)

Examples for Requiem

In his gloomy spirits he even said to his wife that he was writing his own Requiem.

Requiem for a Dream (2000) Simply in terms of visually gripping it would be a tie between Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream.

Buzz Bissinger writes a four-page sentence that ruins a Requiem for welterweight Barney Ross.

A Requiem completed the devotions of the unfortunate Kenmure.

"I do not feel that we have come here to sing a Requiem for art this afternoon," he said.

Love had been the cradle-song of his infancy, love was the Requiem of his youth.

Let the ocean be my sepulchre, and the winds sing my Requiem.

The publication of Requiem was not just sad, it was heavily ironic.

“Requiem for the Croppies” Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.

The wind was howling their Requiem over the inhospitable coast.