Threnody

Definition: Threnody

Threnody

Noun

1. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

Date "threnody" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Etymology: Threnody \Thren"o*dy\, noun. [expression of Greek origin; dirge song. See Threne, and Ode.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Threnody

Synonyms: coronach (n), dirge (n), lament (n), requiem (n). (additional references)

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: Threnody

English words defined with "threnody": Threne, Threnode, Threnodist. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Threnody (2002)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Eugene O'Neill's Unfinished Threnody and Process of Invention in Four Cycle Plays (reference) The shop on Threnody Street (reference) Threnody (reference) Threnody and Other Memories (reference) Threnody for Two (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Threnody [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Threnody" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Threnody" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "threnody"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏لحن حزين أنيق. (various references)

Bulgarian		погребална песен (coronach, dirge, lament, monody, requiem, threnode). (various references)

Chinese		悲歌 (dirge, elegy, sad melody, sing with solemn fervor, stirring strains). (various references)

French		mélopée, lamentation. (various references)

Greek		θρηνωδία (monody). (various references)

Hebrew		שיר אבל, קינה (dirge, elegy, lament, lamentation, plaint). (various references)

Hungarian		gyászdal (dirge, elegy), gyászének (dirge, elegy, lament, rekviem). (various references)

Pig Latin		enodythray

Romanian		elegie (dirge, elegiac, elegy, lament, lamentation), cântec de jale, bocet (dirge, groans, keen, lament, lamentation, wail, wailing). (various references)

Russian		погребальное пение (threnode), погребальная песнь (dirge, monody, threnode). (various references)

Spanish		lamento (cry, lament, lamentation, plaint, wail, wails). (various references)

Turkish		cenaze şarkısı (threnode), ağıt (coronach, dirge, elegiac, elegy, keening, lament, lamentation, mourning, threnode, wailing). (various references)

Ukranian		надгробна пісня (threnode). (various references)

Vietnamese		bài điếu ca (threnode). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Threnody" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thredody. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "threnody" (pronounced 'Thren"o*dy'): Bastardy, Bendy, BRANDY, Burgundy, Centinody, Chickabiddy, Chiropody, Cloddy, Coddymoddy, Corody, Crowdy, Custody, Daddy, Dandy, findy, foolhardy, Hendy, higgledy-piggledy, howdy, hymnody, landlady, malady, Maundy, melody, middy, Milady, monody, Monopody, Neddy, noddy, Orthopedy, Overhardy, Palinody, Pandowdy, Pentapody, Perdy, Perfidy, Petalody, Phyllody, Pistillody, Polypody, Predy, Prosody, Psalmody, Quandy, rhapsody, Rody, rowdy, Rowdydowdy, Sepalody. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-h-n-o-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: thorned, throned.
	-2 letters: dehorn, dehort, horned, hornet, hoyden, nother, rhyton, rodent, theory, thorny, throne, trendy, yonder.
	-3 letters: doeth, dorty, doter, doyen, drone, entry, henry, heron, honed, honer, honey, horde, horny, hydro, nerdy, north, noted, noter, onery, other, redon, tenor, thorn, throe, toned, toner, toney, toyed, toyer, trend, trode, trone, tyned, tyred.
	-4 letters: dent, deny.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-h-n-o-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: endothermy, heterodyne.
	+3 letters: dehydration, heterodyned, heterodynes, hydrogenate, rehydration.
	+4 letters: dehydrations, heterodyning, hydrogenated, hydrogenates, hydrokinetic, neoorthodoxy, rehydrations, rehypnotized, stonyhearted, thunderously.
	+5 letters: dehydrogenate, downheartedly, dryopithecine, grandmotherly, hydrogenating, hydrogenation, hydromagnetic, nonhereditary, openheartedly, thermodynamic.
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