Definitions for coronach

coronach cor·o·nach

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

Coronach is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in coronach (acchnoor).

Definitions for coronach

noun

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

Origin of coronach

1490-1500; Scots Gaelic corranach, Irish coránach dirge

Examples for coronach

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for coronach
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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