A song of lamentation; a dirge, threnody; formerly spec. (in plural) the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Septuagint θρῆνοι Ἰερεμίου, Vulgate Threni).

A song or poem of lamentation, esp. for the dead; a memorial poem. Also as a mass noun.

Formerly, a title for elegiac poems or other compositions; a lament. [So in French.]

spec. A funeral song or lamentation in the Highlands of Scotland and in Ireland; a dirge.

transferred. A song sung at the burial of, or in commemoration of, the dead; a song of mourning or lament. Also figurative.

Chiefly poetic. Any dirge, solemn chant, prayer, etc., for the repose of the soul of a dead person. Now rare.

In titles: = monody, n. 2. Now historical.

= threne, n., threnody, n.

A song of lamentation; spec. a lament for the dead, a dirge.

A poem in which a mourner bewails a person's death; an elegy. Cf. monodia, n. 1.

A set or conventional form of mourning; a song of grief, an elegy; esp. a dirge performed at a death or burial; also, the air to which such a…

= keen, n.

A cry or song of lamentation; an outcry, uproar, hubbub. Also as int. v.intransitive. Cf. pillaloo, int. n.

An Irish funeral song accompanied with wailing in lamentation for the dead.

A formal lamentation; a dirge, a coronach. Also transferred and figurative.

= threnody, n.

A lament in which one or more of the chief characters and the chorus sing alternate parts.