单词 | elegy |
释义 | elegy /el"i jee/, n. , pl. elegies. 1. a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead. 2. a poem written in elegiac meter. 3. a sad or mournful musical composition. [1505-15; ( < MF) < L elegia < Gk elegeía, orig. neut. pl. of ELEGEÎOS elegiac, equiv. to éleg(os) a lament + -eios adj. suffix] |
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