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Elegy
ˈɛlədʒi
Elegy definitions
noun
elegies
elegy
- (in modern literature) a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
"he wrote elegies for friends who died during the war"
- (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius
"the poem might be a translation from an ancient Greek elegy"