elegy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: elegy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for elegy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elegy n a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: elegy, lament]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Elegy \El"e*gy\, n.; pl. {Elegies}. [L. elegia, Gr. [?], fem. sing. (cf. [?], prop., neut. pl. of [?] a distich in elegiac verse), fr. [?] elegiac, fr. [?] a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. --Shak.