Word: elegy
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Synonyms: elegy
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: elegy
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spanish
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elegía
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german
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klagelied
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french
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élégie
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russian
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элегия, дума
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swedish
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elegi
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finnish
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kaihoruno
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danish
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klagesang, elegi
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czech
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elegie
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polish
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elegia
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hungarian
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elégia
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greek
Translations:
ελεγεία
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ukrainian
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елегія
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estonian
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eleegia
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croatian
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elegija
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lithuanian
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elegija
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latvian
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elēģija
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romanian
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elegie
The meaning and "use of": elegy
noun
- a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. - Addison was buried in Westminster Abbey, and lamented in an elegy by Tickell.
- (in Greek and Roman poetry) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius. - Originally, the Greek elegy expressed grief; but the form broadened widely with Latin adaptations, such as Ovid's love elegies, Amores, to include almost any kind of subject.
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