THRENE

Definition: THRENE

THRENE

Noun

1. Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "THRENE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Etymology: Threne \Threne\, noun. [Latin expression threnus. Compare to Drone.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Lamentation	Mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes; lachrymatory; knell; deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium; threne; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade; ullalulla.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: THRENE

English words defined with "THRENE": Threnetical, Threnode. (references)

Etymologies containing "THRENE": threnody. (references)

Derivations
	Words ending with "THRENE": methylcholanthrene, phenanthrene. (additional references)
	Words containing "THRENE": methylcholanthrenes, phenanthrenes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: nether.
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-n-r-t"
	-1 letter: enter, ether, rente, terne, there, three, treen.
	-2 letters: erne, hent, here, hern, rent, rete, teen, tern, thee, then, tree.
	-3 letters: ere, ern, eth, hen, her, het, nee, net, nth, ree, ret, tee, ten, the.
	-4 letters: eh, en, er, et, he, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-n-r-t"
	+1 letter: earthen, greenth, hearten, neither, therein, thereon.
	+2 letters: adherent, brethren, coherent, dethrone, earthmen, enthrone, entrench, greenths, hastener, heartens, hereinto, hereunto, herniate, honester, inherent, leathern, neatherd, nephrite, retrench, revehent, theremin, thirteen, threaten, threnode, trenched, trencher, trenches, trephine, untether, urethane, whitener, wreathen.
	+3 letters: adherents, bethorned, burthened, chastener, chuntered, dethroned, dethroner, dethrones, enchanter, endotherm, enthroned, enthrones, entrechat, enwreathe, eutherian, hasteners, heartened, herniated, herniates, heteronym, hibernate, inbreathe, inearthed, inherited, intermesh, lengthier, lightener, narthexes, neatherds, nephrites, otherness, phrenetic, reheating, rethinker, retighten, shortened, shortener, stenchier, terebinth, tethering, thereinto, theremins, thereunto, thereupon, thickener, thirteens, threatens, threeping, threnodes, threonine, thundered, thunderer, tightener, trenchers, trephined, trephines, unearthed, untethers, unwreathe, urethanes, whereinto, whereunto, whiteners.
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