threne
Definitions
a dirge or lamentation
Equivalents
Examples
“1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, In bronze sublimity she gazes forth Over her Capital of teen and threne”
“A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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