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Complete Definition of "threne"

English

Etymology
Greek θρηνος ‘funeral lament’.

Pronunciation
IPA|/θri:n/

Noun
en-noun

  1. a dirge or lamentation

#:*1922: A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music. — James Joyce, Ulysses

ru:threne

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