Definition of dirge in English:

dirge

noun dəːdʒdərdʒ

1A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite.
（尤指作为葬礼一部分的）对死者的哀悼
Example sentencesExamples
- It was immediately regarded as a work of great power and emotional charge, especially the second movement, Preghiera per gli innocenti, a dirge in memory of the Great War's victims.
- It does not lie in the funeral dirges of Lebanon and Israel, the bombings in Baghdad and the British Army's game of cat and mouse in the deserts of Helmand.
- Somewhere, in the distance, a funeral dirge played.
- Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion.
- If you are one of the resort's pool of bankrupt songwriters but still have grave interests and tendencies, think about turning to writing dirges for funerals.
- To commemorate his death anniversary Salar Jung Museum has organised a special exhibition of manuscripts, dirges and elegies.
- Mixing the ‘let freedom ring’ chorus in with the funeral dirge that is still ringing in the hearts of the victims' families is just shy of vile.
- One minute the crowd is jumping around, happy and hyped, and the next minute they are being subjected to an hour and half of music more suited to a funeral dirge…
- The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery.
- What is ‘Danny Boy,’ after all, but a funeral dirge?
- The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero.
- A ‘threnody’ is a dirge, a song of lamentation; the artist intended to create an environment that would be conducive to meditation on death and destruction.
- They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer.
- All night long the Greeks raise the funeral dirge.
- Of course, anything other than a funeral dirge might be a little too upbeat for the game.
Synonyms
elegy, lament, funeral song/chant, burial hymn, requiem, dead march
Irish &amp Scottish keen, coronach
rare threnody, threnode, monody
1. 1.1 A mournful song, piece of music, or sound.
  哀乐，挽歌
  singers chanted dirges
  歌手们吟唱着挽歌。
  figurative the wind howled dirges around the chimney
  〈喻〉风在烟囱周边发出哀号声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The winds howled their dirge about the rough-hewn stone dwellings huddled under the grim fortress of the Sorcerers who kept watch over the once-great plains of Kal Maros.
  Knowing that repeating his previous pain-racked dirges would just turn him into a caricature, Rollins continues in the tradition of his last outing Get Some Go Again, letting it all hang out with a pure rock delivery.
  It even has a hummable melody, as does ‘Mary’, the liveliest of her mournful dirges.
  The new songs show Pedro The Lion's move towards more darker material, showing off an ability to go from slow-core-ish dirges to frenzied beat-heavy rock numbers.
  Following debut album Appetite for Destruction, Axl starts referencing the likes of Elton John with the ecclesiastical piano dirge of ‘November Rain’ from follow-up Use Your Illusion.
  Terren's staff sang out with a lamenting dirge, causing many men to cast away their weapons and run for safety, allowing Terren to cut down their abandoned comrades with his staff and short, erratic bursts of magic.
  The 18 tracks include the infamous Vietnam War rant against the US military top brass, War Pigs, Children Of The Grave, and Killing Yourself To Live, among other dark dirges.
  Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline.
  In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi.
  Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel.
  And the Minutemen covers break up the dirges with up-tempo, jazzy pep talks for the workin’ man.
  Mini's songs were neither dirges nor fight songs but soulful chants with melodies of promise.
  I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
  They could be diary poems like Clive James' dirges but the passion and love and guilt and everything else pour out of the Hughes poems like an emotional cornucopia - a death note maybe but a special one.
  Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge.
  The novel is a dirge that keens and lulls by turns.
  There are celebratory songs, such as in the wedding masques in As You Like It and The Tempest, and there are the more solemn dirges and laments of Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing.
  Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath.
  A few of the dirges work, but over the course of fifteen tracks, enough gets to be enough; the rhythm just keeps getting bogged down on the slow ones.
  There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs.
2. 1.2informal A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, miserable, or boring.
  〈非正式〉缓慢（悲伤或沉闷）的歌曲（或乐曲）
  after his ten-minute dirge, the audience booed
  他戚戚婉婉地唱了十分钟，听众就开始发出嘘声了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The signature brow beating and bleating dirges still abound, but there's an increased focus on songwriting rather than the moping first-person exposition that typified their first few records.
  Hmmm, I thought,: ‘Maybe this time they won't have me pulling my eyelashes out one-by-one while listening to their Muzak funeral dirges.’
  Homesongs, the solo debut from ex-Fridge bassist Adem Ilhan, gives his lonely heart its own club band, but unfortunately, these dragging, faceless roots-tinged dirges fail.
  And a too jarring, ham-fisted, funeral dirge of a score by usually dependable composer Terence Blanchard doesn't help matters any.
  The Dead C have been treading the same water since their inception in 1987 and their leaden, layered guitar-soaked dirges just feel tired up against the vibrancy of Konono.

Derivatives

dirgeful

adjective

Over the course of forty minutes and six movements Foon and Cawdron et al provide a dirgeful opus of clevises, cowbells, and weeping, sawing strings; a cycle of loss - a soundtrack to the world's end.
Example sentencesExamples
- On the gorgeous closer ‘Crawling by Numbers,’ she similarly warms up the chorus with a beautiful reach - the juxtaposition of her voice with the song's dirgeful strings making for a mesmerizing finale.
- The album closes on a self-conscious note with a dirgeful, if rote, cover of The Beatles’ ‘Girl’.
- ‘Support Systems’ features more shock-and-awe dynamics, but grows dirgeful in its slow-building eight minutes.
- Beginning with a spliced viola whine that sounds redolent of a weedwhacker gone haywire, the song features an unflinching drum rhythm that starts entropic, before being finally pinioned by a dirgeful bassline.

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.

Rhymes

converge, diverge, emerge, merge, purge, scourge, serge, splurge, spurge, submerge, surge, urge, verge

Definition of dirge in US English:

dirge

noundərdʒdərj

1A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite.
（尤指作为葬礼一部分的）对死者的哀悼
Example sentencesExamples
- It does not lie in the funeral dirges of Lebanon and Israel, the bombings in Baghdad and the British Army's game of cat and mouse in the deserts of Helmand.
- Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion.
- Somewhere, in the distance, a funeral dirge played.
- The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero.
- They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer.
- A ‘threnody’ is a dirge, a song of lamentation; the artist intended to create an environment that would be conducive to meditation on death and destruction.
- One minute the crowd is jumping around, happy and hyped, and the next minute they are being subjected to an hour and half of music more suited to a funeral dirge…
- All night long the Greeks raise the funeral dirge.
- It was immediately regarded as a work of great power and emotional charge, especially the second movement, Preghiera per gli innocenti, a dirge in memory of the Great War's victims.
- What is ‘Danny Boy,’ after all, but a funeral dirge?
- To commemorate his death anniversary Salar Jung Museum has organised a special exhibition of manuscripts, dirges and elegies.
- If you are one of the resort's pool of bankrupt songwriters but still have grave interests and tendencies, think about turning to writing dirges for funerals.
- Of course, anything other than a funeral dirge might be a little too upbeat for the game.
- The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery.
- Mixing the ‘let freedom ring’ chorus in with the funeral dirge that is still ringing in the hearts of the victims' families is just shy of vile.
Synonyms
elegy, lament, funeral chant, funeral song, burial hymn, requiem, dead march
1. 1.1 A mournful song, piece of music, or poem.
  哀乐，挽歌
  singers chanted dirges
  歌手们吟唱着挽歌。
  figurative the wind howled dirges around the chimney
  〈喻〉风在烟囱周边发出哀号声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It even has a hummable melody, as does ‘Mary’, the liveliest of her mournful dirges.
  The winds howled their dirge about the rough-hewn stone dwellings huddled under the grim fortress of the Sorcerers who kept watch over the once-great plains of Kal Maros.
  The novel is a dirge that keens and lulls by turns.
  Terren's staff sang out with a lamenting dirge, causing many men to cast away their weapons and run for safety, allowing Terren to cut down their abandoned comrades with his staff and short, erratic bursts of magic.
  And the Minutemen covers break up the dirges with up-tempo, jazzy pep talks for the workin’ man.
  There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs.
  The 18 tracks include the infamous Vietnam War rant against the US military top brass, War Pigs, Children Of The Grave, and Killing Yourself To Live, among other dark dirges.
  Mini's songs were neither dirges nor fight songs but soulful chants with melodies of promise.
  I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
  In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi.
  Following debut album Appetite for Destruction, Axl starts referencing the likes of Elton John with the ecclesiastical piano dirge of ‘November Rain’ from follow-up Use Your Illusion.
  Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge.
  Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline.
  The new songs show Pedro The Lion's move towards more darker material, showing off an ability to go from slow-core-ish dirges to frenzied beat-heavy rock numbers.
  Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel.
  Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath.
  There are celebratory songs, such as in the wedding masques in As You Like It and The Tempest, and there are the more solemn dirges and laments of Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing.
  They could be diary poems like Clive James' dirges but the passion and love and guilt and everything else pour out of the Hughes poems like an emotional cornucopia - a death note maybe but a special one.
  A few of the dirges work, but over the course of fifteen tracks, enough gets to be enough; the rhythm just keeps getting bogged down on the slow ones.
  Knowing that repeating his previous pain-racked dirges would just turn him into a caricature, Rollins continues in the tradition of his last outing Get Some Go Again, letting it all hang out with a pure rock delivery.

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.

单词	dirge
释义	Definition of dirge in English: dirge noun dəːdʒdərdʒ 1A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite. （尤指作为葬礼一部分的）对死者的哀悼 Example sentencesExamples It was immediately regarded as a work of great power and emotional charge, especially the second movement, Preghiera per gli innocenti, a dirge in memory of the Great War's victims. It does not lie in the funeral dirges of Lebanon and Israel, the bombings in Baghdad and the British Army's game of cat and mouse in the deserts of Helmand. Somewhere, in the distance, a funeral dirge played. Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion. If you are one of the resort's pool of bankrupt songwriters but still have grave interests and tendencies, think about turning to writing dirges for funerals. To commemorate his death anniversary Salar Jung Museum has organised a special exhibition of manuscripts, dirges and elegies. Mixing the ‘let freedom ring’ chorus in with the funeral dirge that is still ringing in the hearts of the victims' families is just shy of vile. One minute the crowd is jumping around, happy and hyped, and the next minute they are being subjected to an hour and half of music more suited to a funeral dirge… The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery. What is ‘Danny Boy,’ after all, but a funeral dirge? The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero. A ‘threnody’ is a dirge, a song of lamentation; the artist intended to create an environment that would be conducive to meditation on death and destruction. They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer. All night long the Greeks raise the funeral dirge. Of course, anything other than a funeral dirge might be a little too upbeat for the game. Synonyms elegy, lament, funeral song/chant, burial hymn, requiem, dead march Irish &amp Scottish keen, coronach rare threnody, threnode, monody 1.1 A mournful song, piece of music, or sound. 哀乐，挽歌 singers chanted dirges 歌手们吟唱着挽歌。 figurative the wind howled dirges around the chimney 〈喻〉风在烟囱周边发出哀号声。 Example sentencesExamples The winds howled their dirge about the rough-hewn stone dwellings huddled under the grim fortress of the Sorcerers who kept watch over the once-great plains of Kal Maros. Knowing that repeating his previous pain-racked dirges would just turn him into a caricature, Rollins continues in the tradition of his last outing Get Some Go Again, letting it all hang out with a pure rock delivery. It even has a hummable melody, as does ‘Mary’, the liveliest of her mournful dirges. The new songs show Pedro The Lion's move towards more darker material, showing off an ability to go from slow-core-ish dirges to frenzied beat-heavy rock numbers. Following debut album Appetite for Destruction, Axl starts referencing the likes of Elton John with the ecclesiastical piano dirge of ‘November Rain’ from follow-up Use Your Illusion. Terren's staff sang out with a lamenting dirge, causing many men to cast away their weapons and run for safety, allowing Terren to cut down their abandoned comrades with his staff and short, erratic bursts of magic. The 18 tracks include the infamous Vietnam War rant against the US military top brass, War Pigs, Children Of The Grave, and Killing Yourself To Live, among other dark dirges. Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline. In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi. Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel. And the Minutemen covers break up the dirges with up-tempo, jazzy pep talks for the workin’ man. Mini's songs were neither dirges nor fight songs but soulful chants with melodies of promise. I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge. They could be diary poems like Clive James' dirges but the passion and love and guilt and everything else pour out of the Hughes poems like an emotional cornucopia - a death note maybe but a special one. Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge. The novel is a dirge that keens and lulls by turns. There are celebratory songs, such as in the wedding masques in As You Like It and The Tempest, and there are the more solemn dirges and laments of Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing. Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath. A few of the dirges work, but over the course of fifteen tracks, enough gets to be enough; the rhythm just keeps getting bogged down on the slow ones. There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs. 1.2informal A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, miserable, or boring. 〈非正式〉缓慢（悲伤或沉闷）的歌曲（或乐曲） after his ten-minute dirge, the audience booed 他戚戚婉婉地唱了十分钟，听众就开始发出嘘声了。 Example sentencesExamples The signature brow beating and bleating dirges still abound, but there's an increased focus on songwriting rather than the moping first-person exposition that typified their first few records. Hmmm, I thought,: ‘Maybe this time they won't have me pulling my eyelashes out one-by-one while listening to their Muzak funeral dirges.’ Homesongs, the solo debut from ex-Fridge bassist Adem Ilhan, gives his lonely heart its own club band, but unfortunately, these dragging, faceless roots-tinged dirges fail. And a too jarring, ham-fisted, funeral dirge of a score by usually dependable composer Terence Blanchard doesn't help matters any. The Dead C have been treading the same water since their inception in 1987 and their leaden, layered guitar-soaked dirges just feel tired up against the vibrancy of Konono. Derivatives dirgeful adjective Over the course of forty minutes and six movements Foon and Cawdron et al provide a dirgeful opus of clevises, cowbells, and weeping, sawing strings; a cycle of loss - a soundtrack to the world's end. Example sentencesExamples On the gorgeous closer ‘Crawling by Numbers,’ she similarly warms up the chorus with a beautiful reach - the juxtaposition of her voice with the song's dirgeful strings making for a mesmerizing finale. The album closes on a self-conscious note with a dirgeful, if rote, cover of The Beatles’ ‘Girl’. ‘Support Systems’ features more shock-and-awe dynamics, but grows dirgeful in its slow-building eight minutes. Beginning with a spliced viola whine that sounds redolent of a weedwhacker gone haywire, the song features an unflinching drum rhythm that starts entropic, before being finally pinioned by a dirgeful bassline. 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. Rhymes converge, diverge, emerge, merge, purge, scourge, serge, splurge, spurge, submerge, surge, urge, verge Definition of dirge in US English: dirge noundərdʒdərj 1A lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite. （尤指作为葬礼一部分的）对死者的哀悼 Example sentencesExamples It does not lie in the funeral dirges of Lebanon and Israel, the bombings in Baghdad and the British Army's game of cat and mouse in the deserts of Helmand. Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion. Somewhere, in the distance, a funeral dirge played. The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero. They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer. A ‘threnody’ is a dirge, a song of lamentation; the artist intended to create an environment that would be conducive to meditation on death and destruction. One minute the crowd is jumping around, happy and hyped, and the next minute they are being subjected to an hour and half of music more suited to a funeral dirge… All night long the Greeks raise the funeral dirge. It was immediately regarded as a work of great power and emotional charge, especially the second movement, Preghiera per gli innocenti, a dirge in memory of the Great War's victims. What is ‘Danny Boy,’ after all, but a funeral dirge? To commemorate his death anniversary Salar Jung Museum has organised a special exhibition of manuscripts, dirges and elegies. If you are one of the resort's pool of bankrupt songwriters but still have grave interests and tendencies, think about turning to writing dirges for funerals. Of course, anything other than a funeral dirge might be a little too upbeat for the game. The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery. Mixing the ‘let freedom ring’ chorus in with the funeral dirge that is still ringing in the hearts of the victims' families is just shy of vile. Synonyms elegy, lament, funeral chant, funeral song, burial hymn, requiem, dead march 1.1 A mournful song, piece of music, or poem. 哀乐，挽歌 singers chanted dirges 歌手们吟唱着挽歌。 figurative the wind howled dirges around the chimney 〈喻〉风在烟囱周边发出哀号声。 Example sentencesExamples It even has a hummable melody, as does ‘Mary’, the liveliest of her mournful dirges. The winds howled their dirge about the rough-hewn stone dwellings huddled under the grim fortress of the Sorcerers who kept watch over the once-great plains of Kal Maros. The novel is a dirge that keens and lulls by turns. Terren's staff sang out with a lamenting dirge, causing many men to cast away their weapons and run for safety, allowing Terren to cut down their abandoned comrades with his staff and short, erratic bursts of magic. And the Minutemen covers break up the dirges with up-tempo, jazzy pep talks for the workin’ man. There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs. The 18 tracks include the infamous Vietnam War rant against the US military top brass, War Pigs, Children Of The Grave, and Killing Yourself To Live, among other dark dirges. Mini's songs were neither dirges nor fight songs but soulful chants with melodies of promise. I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge. In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi. Following debut album Appetite for Destruction, Axl starts referencing the likes of Elton John with the ecclesiastical piano dirge of ‘November Rain’ from follow-up Use Your Illusion. Catherine hummed and sang a hymn that faded quickly from a cheery ode to a mournful dirge. Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline. The new songs show Pedro The Lion's move towards more darker material, showing off an ability to go from slow-core-ish dirges to frenzied beat-heavy rock numbers. Sirens wailed their mournful dirge as they raced towards the hotel. Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath. There are celebratory songs, such as in the wedding masques in As You Like It and The Tempest, and there are the more solemn dirges and laments of Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing. They could be diary poems like Clive James' dirges but the passion and love and guilt and everything else pour out of the Hughes poems like an emotional cornucopia - a death note maybe but a special one. A few of the dirges work, but over the course of fifteen tracks, enough gets to be enough; the rhythm just keeps getting bogged down on the slow ones. Knowing that repeating his previous pain-racked dirges would just turn him into a caricature, Rollins continues in the tradition of his last outing Get Some Go Again, letting it all hang out with a pure rock delivery. 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.
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