Definitions for elegy

elegy el·e·gy

Spelling: [el-i-jee]
IPA: /ˈɛl ɪ dʒi/

Elegy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in elegy (eegly).

Definitions for elegy

noun

  1. a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
  2. a poem written in elegiac meter.
  3. a sad or mournful musical composition.

Origin of elegy

1505-15; (Middle French) Latin elegīa Greek elegeía, orig. neuter plural of elegeîos elegiac, equivalent to éleg(os) a lament + -eios adj. suffix

Examples for elegy

That is Gray's "elegy in a Churchyard" turned to resurrection spectacle.

We were in no danger of confusing it with the 'elegy in a Country Churchyard.'

White Nights By Fyodor Dostoyevsky White Nights is also an elegy to a love that never was.

A Colonel Pickering died of it, on whom the chaplain wrote an elegy.

This scene closes with an elegy foreboding the coming tragedy.

Which song do you chuse, the Dying Swan, or the elegy on the death of a mad dog?'

The elegy is the glorification of the obscure; therein lies its popularity.

A few days after, Keimer sent for me to print off the elegy.

I hope this is not an elegy in the sense that what it represents is not lost but it could become an elegy.

In the autumn of 1742 was begun the elegy in a Country Church-yard.

Word Value for elegy
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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