📖 Definitions of "Epicedium"
noun
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Dirge, lament, elegy
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Epicedium"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| epicediannoun | An epicede. |
| elegynoun | A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. |
| elegiacnoun | A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. |
| elegiacknoun | Obsolete form of elegiac. [A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.] |
| epicismnoun | A word, phrase, etc. characteristic of epic poetry. |
| epodenoun | (poetry) The after song; the part of a lyric or choral ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe. |
| iambelegusnoun | (prosody) A verse consisting of an iambic dimeter and half an elegiac pentameter. |
| epyllionnoun | (literary) A brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme. |
| epideixisnoun | epideictic rhetoric |
| epopeenoun | (rare, literary) an epic, saga |
| dithyrambic | Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm. |
| penthosnoun | sorrow; grief; mourning or sadness |
| epicknoun | Archaic spelling of epic. [An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.] |
| epinikionnoun | Alternative form of epinicion. [(Ancient Greece) A song or ode in celebration of triumph or victory.] |
| monodynoun | (music) A composition having a single melodic line. |
| planctusnoun | A lament or dirge, a popular literary form in the Middle Ages. |
| paroemiacnoun | A catalectic anapestic dimeter. |
| panegyristnoun | A eulogist; one who delivers a panegyric or eulogy. |
| laudative | laudatory |
| epopoeianoun | Alternative form of epopee. [(rare, literary) an epic, saga] |
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