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PRONUNCIATION OF THRENODIES

threnodies  [ˈθrenədɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THRENODIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Threnodies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THRENODIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

threnodies

Threnody

A threnody is a song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. The term originates from the Greek word threnoidia, from threnos "wailing" and oide "ode"; ultimately, from the Proto-Indo-European root *wed- that is also the precursor of such words as "ode", "tragedy", "comedy", "parody", "melody" and "rhapsody". Synonyms include "dirge", "coronach", "lament" and "elegy". The Epitaphios Threnos is the lamentation chanted in the Eastern Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday. John Dryden commemorated the death of Charles II of England in the long poem Threnodia Augustalis, and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a "Threnody" in memory of his son.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THRENODIES


antibodies
ˈæntɪˌbɒdɪz
bodies
ˈbɒdɪz
caddies
ˈkædɪz
Cadiz
kəˈdɪz
corrodies
ˈkɒrədɪz
dipodies
ˈdɪpədɪz
foodies
ˈfuːdɪz
goodies
ˈɡʊdɪz
hexapodies
hekˈsæpədɪz
Indies
ˈɪndɪz
melodies
ˈmelədɪz
monodies
ˈmɒnədɪz
nobodies
ˈnəʊbədɪz
perfidies
ˈpɜːfədɪz
somebodies
ˈsʌmbədɪz
steadies
ˈstedɪz
studies
ˈstʌdɪz
teddies
ˈtedɪz
tragedies
ˈtrædʒədɪz
undies
ˈʌndɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THRENODIES

threescore
threescore and ten
threesome
thremmatology
threne
threnetic
threnetical
threnode
threnodial
threnodic
threnodist
threnody
threnos
threonine
thresh
thresh out
threshel
thresher
thresher shark
threshing

WORDS THAT END LIKE THRENODIES

afterbodies
autoantibodies
bloodies
busybodies
corodies
custodies
disembodies
dogsbodies
embodies
goody-goodies
homebodies
ladies
Lewy bodies
parodies
polypodies
psalmodies
rhapsodies
tetrapodies
todies
tripodies
underbodies

Synonyms and antonyms of threnodies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «THRENODIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «threnodies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of threnodies

Translation of «threnodies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THRENODIES

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The translations of threnodies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «threnodies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

哀歌纪元
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trenos
570 millions of speakers

English

threnodies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

threnodies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

threnodies
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

threnodies
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

threnodies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

threnodies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mélopées
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Threnodies
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

threnodies
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

threnodies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

threnodies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Threnodies
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

threnodies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

threnodies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Threnodies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

threnodies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trenodie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Treny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

threnodies
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

threnodies
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θρηνωδία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

threnodies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

threnodies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

threnodies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of threnodies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THRENODIES»

The term «threnodies» is used very little and occupies the 182.872 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THRENODIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about threnodies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THRENODIES»

Discover the use of threnodies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to threnodies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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From the Hills of Dream: Threnodies, Songs and Other Poems...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
William Sharp, 2012
2
Threnodies
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
John Myers O'Hara, 2012
3
From the Hills of Dream Threnodies, Songs and Later Poems
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Fiona MacLeod, 2009
4
From the Hills of Dream; Threnodies, Songs and Later Poems
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
HardPress, William Sharp, 2013
5
Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
Violinist Gregory Fulkerson and pianist Robert Shannon recorded this version three years later.23 Copland featured the flute in two other memorial pieces from these years, namely, two threnodies composed in 1971 and 1973, respectively: ...
Howard Pollack, 2000
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The European Emblem: Sellected Papers from the Glasgow ...
... until his death in 1680. He was made tutor to the Tsar's two sons Aleksej and Fedor Alekseevic and became the unofficial court poet. The emblems in question occur at the end of a long poem entitled Threnodies or Dirges, written to mark ...
Bernhard F. Scholz, Michael Bath, David W. Weston, 1990
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Appalachian Ohio and the Civil War, 1862-1863
Chapter. 17. Peace. Clarions,. Threnodies,. and. Wolf. Calls. Chapter 18 Martinsburg, Virginia, and Its Symbols. Vallandigham's speech, according to the Sentinel, delivered the “verdict” of all intelligent Americans (28 Ja). Accompanying its ...
Susan G. Hall, 2000
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SUBJECT MATTERS: Prose Poems
TOBIAS. NIGHTS. AND. OTHER. THRENODIES. In the end, it all adds up, except nobody cares to tell you why your life is ajar, why the sun is so skillful at penetrating each slat of the Venetian blinds you swear you trained yourself to close each ...
Tony Sanders, 2014
9
A Door in the Hive
Denise Levertov. Two Threnodies and a Psalm It is not approaching. It has arrived. We are not circumventing it. It is happening. It is happening now. We are not preventing it. We are within it. The sound of its happening is splitting other ears.
Denise Levertov, 1989
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Threnodies, Sketches, and Other Poems
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Anonymous, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THRENODIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term threnodies is used in the context of the following news items.
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'The Pinch,' by Steve Stern
For Stern, “sad music” is “dolorous threnodies”; a “paroxysm of furious aggression” by the police spills “a Niagara of shards.” The reader knows about that kind of ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
First Nighter: Andrew Lippa's "Wild Party" Not Nearly Wild Enough
To me, the abundant threnodies sound like the same song repeated unnecessarily. I grant that Lippa did come up with different melodies and lyrics. I know that ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Jazz greats celebrate drum virtuoso Jerome Cooper
The memorial was held in Brooklyn at Roulette Intermedium, at Atlantic and Third Aves., with close friends of Cooper playing threnodies onstage to a packed ... «The Villager, Jul 15»
4
Change And Lack Of Internal Party Democracy By Kennedy Emetulu
We will hear threnodies of how he was betrayed by his party or how his spokespersons muted his real intentions in pages and pages of silence. The power fight ... «SaharaReporters.com, Jun 15»
5
First Nighter: "El gato con botas," "Le Nozze di Figaro," Carlisle …
Take it on faith that their interpretations ring the bell, but also understand that de Niese and Willis-Sorenson sing their threnodies with voluptuous tone, and Malfi ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
6
Future Days review – an absorbing history of Krautrock and 1970s …
Behind Roxy's pop-art experiment were the long hypnotic threnodies of Can, Faust and early Kraftwerk. It is enough to listen to Roxy's The Bogus Man or In ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
7
A wistful note on a triumphant battle
When I was a boy, my father told me and my kid brother stories from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and taught us how to sing some of the threnodies ... «The Japan Times, Mar 14»
8
Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber, Wigmore Hall, review
With an exquisitely melancholy setting of a translation of one of Byron's Hebrew threnodies, followed by a subtly perfumed Venetian barcarolle, Gerhaher ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 14»
9
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Vaults, London
The setting's sense of temporary otherness gives added force to Thompson's poignant threnodies for 1960s idealism. And then, like Alice, we return above ... «Financial Times, Feb 14»
10
What folly to think radicals do not love their country
Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present; William Morris's News from Nowhere, the Marxist HM Hyndman's England for All, John Ruskin's threnodies on the ... «Financial Times, Oct 13»

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