Epicedium

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. dirge, lament, elegy
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An epicede.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A funeral song or dirge.
  • Word Usage
    "Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    epicede