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A dirge is a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

1. a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead. 2. 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. 3. a mournful sound resembling a dirge: The autumn wind sang the dirge of summer. 4. Ecclesiastical. the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung.

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