Threne

Pronunciation

• IPA: /θriːn/

Origin

Greek θρηνος ‘funeral lament’.

Full definition of threne

Noun

1. a dirge or lamentation
• 1874, James Thomson (B.V.), , XXIThat City's sombre Patroness and Queen,In bronze sublimity she gazes forthOver her Capital of teen and threne
• 1922: A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music. — ,

Related terms

• threnody

Anagrams

• nether