- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music: Tennyson's dirge for the Duke of Wellington.
- a mournful sound resembling a dirge: The autumn wind sang the dirge of summer.
- the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung.
- a chant of lamentation for the dead
- the funeral service in its solemn or sung forms
- any mourning song or melody
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