English-Thai Dictionary

dirge

N เพลง ไว้อาลัย  เพลงคร่ำครวญ เกี่ยวกับ ความตาย หรือ เพื่อ ร้อง ใน งานศพ  bridal march dead march pleng-wai-ar-lai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIRGE

n.Durj. [L., a word used in the funeral service. ] A song or tune intended to express grief, sorrow and mourning; as a funeral dirge.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIRGE

Dirge, n. Etym: [Contraction of Lat. dirige, direct thou (imperative of dirigere ), the first word of a funeral hymn (Lat. transl. of Psalm v. 8 ) beginning, "Dirige, Domine, in conspectu tuo vitam meam." See Direct, a., and cf. Dirige. ]

 

Defn: A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn. The raven croaked, and hollow shrieks of owls Sung dirges at her funeral. Ford.

 

DIRGEFUL

DIRGEFUL Dirge "ful, a.

 

Defn: Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dirge

dirge |dərj dərʤ | ▶noun a lament for the dead, esp. one forming part of a funeral rite. • a mournful song, piece of music, or poem: singers chanted dirges | figurative : the wind howled dirges around the chimney. DERIVATIVES dirge ful |-fəl |adjective ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the Office for the Dead ): from Latin dirige! (imperative ) ‘direct!, ’ the first word of an antiphon (Psalm 5:8 ) used in the Latin Office for the Dead.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dirge

dirge |dəːdʒ | ▶noun a lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite. • a mournful song, piece of music, or sound. • informal a song or piece of music that is considered too slow, miserable, or boring. DERIVATIVES dirgeful adjective ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the Office for the Dead ): from Latin dirige! (imperative ) ‘direct! ’, the first word of an antiphon (Ps. 5:8 ) formerly used in the Latin Office for the Dead.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dirge

dirge noun a lone bagpiper played the woeful dirge: elegy, lament, burial hymn, threnody, requiem, funeral march; Irish keen.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dirge

dirge noun he wrote dirges for funerals: elegy, lament, funeral song /chant, burial hymn, requiem, dead march; Irish & Scottish keen, coronach; rare threnody, threnode, monody.

 

Duden Dictionary

Dirge

Dirge Substantiv, Neutrum , das |dəːd͜ʃ |das Dirge; Genitiv: des Dirge, Plural: die Dirges lateinisch-englisch ; nach dem lateinischen Anfangswort einer Totenklage »d i rige, D o mine « = leite, Herr. ..englische Bezeichnung für: Trauer-, Klagegedicht, Klagelied

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dirge

dirge /dəː r dʒ /名詞 C 1 葬送歌, 挽歌 （ばんか ）, 哀悼歌 ; ｟くだけて 非難して ｠ゆっくりすぎて退屈な歌 [曲 ].2 〘キリスト教 〙埋葬式 (の聖歌 ).