Synonym: coronach, dirge, lament, requiem. Similar words: three, thread, threat, threaten, threshold, threatened, threadlike, threatening. Meaning: n. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
1. They sang a threnody for the dead person.
2. Nanking! Nanking! A Threnody for Orchestra and Pipa.
3. The film concludes with a threnody about the unwanted.
4. But inside the echo were sounds not quite their own-a kind of threnody, a weeping, something melodic and sad.
5. The rain drummed on the eaves of her garden fiat at Cuffe Parade. She listened to its dismal threnody, tapping her teeth with her red pencil and watching streams snaking down the windowpanes.
More similar words: three, thread, threat, threaten, threshold, threatened, threadlike, threatening, with regard to, renowned, with respect to, renovate, renounce, compare notes, renovation, french revolution, phenomenon, goody-goody, nod, node, anode, nodule, no doubt, anno domini, shrew, shrewd, body, moody, woody, parody.