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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person;
[syn: dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnody]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Threnody \Thren"o*dy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? a dirge + ? a song. See
   Threne, and Ode.]
   A song of lamentation; a threnode. --Sir T. Herbert.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

threnody
    n 1: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a
         memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge, coronach,
         lament, requiem, threnody]