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"ref": "2010 April 9, Glyn Maxwell, “WH Auden's ‘The Age of Anxiety’”, in The Guardian",
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"word": "requiem"
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"word": "threnody"
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{
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"word": "挽歌"
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"tags": [
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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"word": "chant funèbre"
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "thrênos",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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"_dis1": "69 31",
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "halotti ének"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "kesergő"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "siratóének"
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{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "caoineadh"
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{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nenia"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lamentazione"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "lagna"
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"_dis1": "69 31",
"alt": "あいか",
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"roman": "aika",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "哀歌"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 31",
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "弔歌"
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "장송가"
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"_dis1": "69 31",
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "만가"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "biga",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"word": "비가"
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"_dis1": "69 31",
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"word": "조시"
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"word": "mortuālium"
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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"feminine"
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"_dis1": "69 31",
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"word": "matatangitangi"
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"word": "cântec funebru"
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"word": "recviem"
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"roman": "pogrebálʹnaja pesnʹ",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "погреба́льная песнь"
},
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"roman": "panixída",
"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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"word": "панихи́да"
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"_dis1": "69 31",
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"roman": "rékvijem",
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"word": "canto fúnebre"
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"sense": "mournful poem or piece of music",
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],
"word": "קלאָגליד"
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],
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"(informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring."
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[
"sing",
"sing"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɜːdʒ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dɝd͡ʒ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)dʒ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-dirge.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/df/En-us-dirge.ogg/En-us-dirge.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/En-us-dirge.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "dûj"
},
{
"enpr": "dûrj"
}
],
"word": "dirge"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "dirge",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "dirige"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of dirige"
],
"links": [
[
"dirige",
"dirige#Middle English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "dirge"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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