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Noun Concept
Categories: Laments, Genres of poetry, Poetic form, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Pages using sidebar with the child parameter
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elegy  lament
EN
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead WordNet 3.0
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A mournful poem; a lament for the dead WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. Wikipedia
Poem of mourning. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Literary genre Wikidata
A mournful or plaintive poem. OmegaWiki
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. Wiktionary
Mournful or plaintive poem or song. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
poem
lyric poetry genre
lyric poetry
HAS KIND
planh
Augustan love elegy
Caoine
ancient Greek elegy
aishōka
+1 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Requiem
Wulf and Eadwacer
Elegy of Troyes
SCN
Elegii
Élégie pour cor et piano
DERIVATION
elegist
elegize
lament
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
DIFFERENT FROM
ancient Greek elegy
HAS QUALITY
NL
distichon
MAIN SUBJECT
death
lovesickness
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
Eleji
marsiya
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
elegy, lament
Wikipedia
EN
elegy
Wikidata
EN
elegy
Wiktionary
EN
elegy
OmegaWiki
EN
elegy
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
elegies
Wikidata Alias
EN
elegiac poetry‏, lament, lamentation

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