A.Word.A.Day--elegy

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Sep 23, 2010

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

elegy or L-E-G

PRONUNCIATION:

(EL-i-jee)

MEANING:

noun: A poem composed as a lament for the dead.

ETYMOLOGY:

Via French and Latin from Greek elegos (a mournful poem or song).

USAGE:

"Frederick Septimus Kelly wrote his best-known work, an elegy for string orchestra, in memory of his friend, poet Rupert Brooke."
Matthew Westwood; Lament for Fame's First Victim; The Australian (Sydney); Aug 18, 2006.

Explore "elegy" in the Visual Thesaurus.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)

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