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Meaning of elegy in English
Pronunciation
/ˈɛlədʒi/
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Noun
elegy
Etymology
early 16th century: from French élégie, or via Latin, from Greek elegeia, from elegos‘mournful poem’
Definitions
1.
a mournful poem
Examples
« a lament for the dead »